A Companion to Byzantium

Wiley - A Companion To Byzantium (2010) (ATTiCA)......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Figures......Page 11
Maps......Page 15
Notes on Contributors......Page 17
Acknowledgments......Page 21
Some Relevant Dates......Page 23
List of Byzantine Rulers......Page 27
Abbreviations......Page 31
CHAPTER ONE: Byzantium: a Very, Very Short Introduction......Page 33
CHAPTER TWO: Writing Histories of Byzantium: the Historiography of Byzantine History......Page 41
PART I: Being Byzantine......Page 55
CHAPTER THREE: Economics, Trade, and “Feudalism”......Page 57
CHAPTER FOUR: Byzantium = Constantinople......Page 75
CHAPTER FIVE: Provinces and Capital......Page 87
CHAPTER SIX: Insiders and Outsiders......Page 99
CHAPTER SEVEN: Young People in Byzantium......Page 113
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly......Page 125
CHAPTER NINE: The Memory Culture of Byzantium......Page 140
CHAPTER TEN: Emotions in Byzantium......Page 155
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Having Fun in Byzantium......Page 167
PART II: God and the World......Page 179
CHAPTER TWELVE: Byzantine Views of God and the Universe......Page 181
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Giving Gifts to God: Aspects of Patronage in Byzantine Art......Page 193
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Orthodoxy and Northern Peoples: Goods, Gods and Guidelines......Page 203
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Christology and Heresy......Page 219
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Beyond Byzantium: the Non-Chalcedonian Churches......Page 231
PART III: Reading Byzantine Texts......Page 257
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Rhetorical Questions......Page 271
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Text and Context in Byzantine Historiography......Page 283
CHAPTER TWENTY: Byzantine Narrative: the Form of Storytelling in Byzantium......Page 295
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Byzantine Book Culture......Page 307
PART IV: Some Questions in Material Culture......Page 321
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Archaeology......Page 323
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Makers and Users......Page 333
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: The Limits of Byzantine Art......Page 345
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Icons and Iconomachy......Page 355
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: The Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Renaissance......Page 370
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Late and Post-Byzantine Art under Venetian Rule: Frescoes versus Icons, and Crete in the Middle......Page 383
Bibliography—Primary Sources......Page 403
Bibliography......Page 416
Index......Page 475