Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650–1461

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	I.1 Clearing Up the Field
	I.2 Cultural Memory
	I.3 Byzantine Cultural Memory
	I.4 Memory in Byzantium
	I.5 The Function of Language
	I.6 An Outline of Research Logic
1 Sacred Persia
	1.1 The Concept of the Old Testament
	1.2 The Identity of the Magi
	1.3 The Star and Chaldean Wisdom
	1.4 A Historiosophy of the Magi
	1.5 A Polemical Device
	1.6 Early Evangelisation of Parthia
	1.7 The Adverse Persians
	1.8 Materiality of Memory
	1.9 Conclusion: God's Persia
2 The Pre-History of the Magi
	2.1 The Plot
	2.2 Date, Place and Typology
	2.3 Aphroditianos and the Magi
	2.4 Early Contextualising Attempts
	2.5 A Christian 'Quasi-Mithraic' Apologia?
	2.6 Reconciling Inconsistencies
	2.7 Later Tradition
	2.8 Conclusion: Persianising Christianity
3 The Holy Persians
	3.1 Christianisation and Persecution
	3.2 Liturgical Memory
	3.3 Churches and Relics
	3.4 Private Piety
	3.5 'Persian' Anthroponymy
	3.6 Conclusion: The Persian Saints Byzantinised
4 Memorising Persia
	4.1 Mnemonic Tools
	4.2 Explaining Memory
	4.3 Les Lieux de Mémoire
	4.4 Collecting to Recollect
	4.5 Conclusion: Epistemological Bridging
5 Activating Memory
	5.1 Rhetoric of Persia
	5.2 The Byzantine Achaemenids
	5.3 In the Vernacular
	5.4 'Persian' Proverbs
	5.5 Practicalities of Memory
	5.6 Conclusion: Association and Function
6 Vicissitudes of Wisdom
	6.1 Practical Wisdom
	6.2 Psellos and the Persian
	6.3 Plethon's Wisdom
	6.4 Reassembling Zoroaster
	6.5 Hellenic Persia
	6.6 Was Zoroaster a Jew or a Muslim?
	6.7 More on Byzantine 'Persianism'
	6.8 Conclusion: Instrumentality and Neglect
7 Iranian Actualities
	7.1 Khorasan
	7.2 The Byzantine Persians
	7.3 Theophobos, the Pharganoi and Others
	7.4 The Anatolian Persians
	7.5 Persian Visitors
	7.6 Listening Persian, Speaking Persian
	7.7 New Persian Wisdom
		7.7.1 The Persian and Persian-speaking Intellectuals
		7.7.2 Andronikos II and the Persian
		7.7.3 Persian References
		7.7.4 Byzantine Science Orientalised
		7.7.5 Persian Moralising
	7.8 A Persian Gazetteer
	7.9 Continuity of Persias
	7.10 Conclusion: Degrees of Persianisation
A Greco-Iranian Epilogue
	E.1 A Gateway to the Orient
	E.2 More than One Persia
	E.3 Byzantine Persia and the Modern Iranian Identity
Bibliography
Index
	General Index
	Greek Terms and Expressions
	Arabographic Terms