Byzantium in the Ninth Century: Dead or Alive? Papers from the Thirtieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1996

Preface vii
List of Abbreviations ix
Section I. The Byzantine State
1. The Byzantine state in the ninth century: an introduction / John Haldon 3
2. Reanimation of Roman law in the ninth century: remarks on reasons and results / Marie Theres Fögen 11
3. The Paulicians and ninth-century Byzantine thought / Claudia Ludwig 23
4. The rehabilitation of the Emperor Theophilos / Athanasios Markopoulos 37
5. The imperial thought-world of Leo VI: the non-campaigning emperor of the ninth century / Shaun Tougher 51
Section II. Byzantine Culture
6. Byzantine culture in the ninth century: an introduction / Leslie Brubaker 63
7. Byzantium: cultural suicide? / Paul Speck 73
8. Manifestations de la propagande en faveur de l\'orthodoxie / Marie-France Auzépy 85
9. Canon and calendar: the role of a ninth-century hymnographer in shaping the celebration of saints / Nancy Patterson Ševčenko 101
10. Reconstructing ninth-century Constantinople / Robert Ousterhout 115
11. The road from Baghdad to Byzantium and the case of the Bryas Palace in Istanbul / Alessandra Ricci 131
12. Away from the centre: \'provincial\' art in the ninth century / Robin Cormack 151
Section III. Byzantium and the Outside World
13. Byzantine relations with the outside world in the ninth century: an introduction / Jonathan Shepard 167
14. What has Constantinople to do with Jerusalem? Palestine in the ninth century: Byzantine orthodoxy in the world of Islam / Sidney Griffith 181
15. The road to Baghdad in the thought-world of ninth-century Byzantium / Paul Magdalino 195
16. Byzantium and al-Andalus in the ninth century / Eduardo Manzano Moreno 215
17. Byzance et Italie méridionale / Guislaine Noyé 229
18. Ninth-century Byzantium through western eyes / Chris Wickham 245
Index 257