From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities

Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 14
List of Illustrations......Page 15
List of Contributors......Page 18
Note on Names and Terms......Page 25
Introduction......Page 27
Part 1 The City......Page 37
Chapter 1 Looking Eastwards: The Regina Orientis in Sidonius Apollinaris’ Carmen 2......Page 39
Chapter 2 L’identité romaine est-elle exclusive à Constantinople? Dichotomie entre Byzance et les Balkans à l’époque médiobyzantine (VIe–XIIe siècles)......Page 51
Chapter 3 City and Sovereignty in East Roman Thought, c.1000–1200: Ioannes Zonaras’ Historical Vision of the Roman State......Page 67
Part 2 Connections & Coercion......Page 91
Chapter 4 “Furnish Whatever is Lacking to Their Avarice”: The Payment Programme of Cyril of Alexandria......Page 93
Chapter 5 Constantinopolitan Connections: Liudprand of Cremona and Byzantium......Page 110
Chapter 6 Strengthening Justice through Friendship and Friendship through Justice: Michael Psellos and the Provincial Judges......Page 124
Part 3 The Civic & The Holy......Page 135
Chapter 7 Eusebius’ Caesarea: The Writing of History and the Dynamics of Ecclesiastical Politics in Fourth-Century Palestine......Page 137
Chapter 8 Spectatorship in City and Church in Late Antiquity: Theoria Returns to the Festival......Page 153
Chapter 9 Constantinople and the Desert City: Imperial Patronage of the Judaean Desert Monasteries, 451–565......Page 168
Chapter 10 Citadels of Prayer: The Christian Polis under Siege from the Summer of 502 to the Summer of 626......Page 185
Part 4 The Cities......Page 199
Chapter 11 Province in Contrast to City: Irregularities and Peculiarities in the Coinage of Antioch (518–565)......Page 201
Chapter 12 Rome in the Seventh-Century Byzantine Empire: A Migrant’s Network Perspective from the Circle of Maximos the Confessor......Page 217
Chapter 13 Rus’ Dynastic Ideology in the Frescoes of the South Chapels in St. Sophia, Kiev......Page 233
Chapter 14 The Miracle Cycle between Constantinople, Thessalonike, and Mistra......Page 252
Part 5 Reception & Response......Page 267
Chapter 15 Constantinople and Alexandria between the Seventh and Eighth Centuries: The Representation of Byzantium in Christian Sources from Conquered Egypt......Page 269
Chapter 16 A Forgotten Translation of Pseudo-Methodius in Eighth-Century Constantinople: New Evidence for the Dispersal of the Greek Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius during the Dark Age Crisis......Page 286
Chapter 17 Comprendre les « Sarrasins » à Byzance dans la première moitié du IXe siècle......Page 303
Part 6 A Metropolitan Education: Texts & Contexts......Page 321
Chapter 18 Byzantine Manuscript Colophons and the Prosopography of Scribal Activity......Page 323
Chapter 19 Sayings Attributed to Emperors of Old and New Rome in Michael Psellos’ Historia Syntomos......Page 337
Chapter 20 Ulysse, Tzetzès et l’éducation à Byzance......Page 352
Part 7 To the Frontier......Page 369
Chapter 21 Kastron, Rabaḍ and Arḍūn: The Case of Artanuji......Page 371
Chapter 22 From the Frontier Cities to the City, and Back? Reinterpreting Southern Italy in the De administrando imperio......Page 391
Chapter 23 Byzantine Art beyond the Borders of the Empire: A Case Study of the Church of St. Chrysogonusin Zara......Page 411
Chapter 24 Master of Kastamon, Emperor of Eternity: Ioannes Komnenos as Border-maker and Border-breaker in Theodoros Prodromos’ poem ‘On the advance to Kastamon’......Page 451
Chapter 25 ‘Ioannoupolis’: Lopadion as ‘City’ and Military Headquarters under Emperor Ioannes II Komnenos......Page 461
Bibliography......Page 491
Index......Page 543