Byzantine Greece: Microcosm of Empire?: Papers from the Forty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies)

Contents\nFigures\nAcknowledgments\n1 Introduction\nPart 1\n	2 The Institutional Church in Early Christian Greece\n	3 The Early Byzantine Fortress of Velika on the Coast of Kissavos, Thessaly\n	4 Urban and Rural Settlement in Early Byzantine Attica (4th–7th Centuries)\nPart 2\n	5 The ‘Byzantine District’ of Gortyn (Crete) and the End of a/the Ancient Mediterranean City\n	6 Maritime Routes in the Aegean (7th–9th Centuries)\n	The 7th-Century Restoration of theAcheiropoietos Basilica and ItsSignificance for the Urban Continuityof Thessalonike during the ‘Dark Age’\n	8 Some Remarks on the ‘Dark Age’ Architecture of Hagia Sophia, Thessalonike\nPart 3\n	9 Bridging the Grande Brèche\n	10 Byzantine Butrint vis-à-vis ‘Dark Age’ Athens\n	11 The Defences of Middle Byzantium in Greece (7th–12th Centuries)\n	12 The Demographic and EconomicHistory of Byzantine Greece in theLong Durée\n	13 Middle Byzantine Hierissos\nPart 4\n	14 Patronage of Religious Foundations in Middle Byzantine Greece (867–1204)\n	15 Church-Building in the Peloponnese\n	16 Hermits, Monks, and Nuns on Chalke, a Small Island of the Dodecanese from Early Christian to Middle Byzantine Times\nPart 5\n	17 Loving the Poor\n	18 Economic Strategies of Landowners and Peasant Farmers during the 11th and 12th Centuries in Greece\n	19 The Merchant in Middle Byzantine Greece\nIndex