The Byzantine world

Paul Stephenson: Introduction

Part I: The Byzantines in Their World
1 Michael Angold: The Byzantine political process at crisis point
2 Paul Stephenson: The rise of the middle Byzantine aristocracy and the decline of the imperial state
3 Cécile Morrisson: Money, coins and the economy
4 John Haldon: The army and military logistics
5 Anthony Kaldellis: The study of women and children: methodological challenges and new directions
6 Leonora Neville: Strong women and their husbands in Byzantine historiography
7 Shaun Tougher: Cherchez l’homme! Byzantine men: a eunuch perspective
8 Günter Prinzing: On slaves and slavery
9 Christopher Livanos: Monotheists, dualists and pagans
10 Tia Kolbaba: The virtues and faults of the Latin Christians

Part II: The Written World
11 Catherine Holmes: Political literacy
12 Denis F. Sullivan: Byzantine military manuals: prescriptions, practice and pedagogy
13 J. M. Featherstone: De cerimoniis and the Great Palace
14 Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis: Rhetoric and performance
15 Stratis Papaioannou: Letter-writing
16 Christopher Livanos: Trends and developments in the Byzantine poetic tradition
17 Anthony Kaldellis: The corpus of Byzantine historiography: an interpretive essay
18 Youval Rotman: Christians, Jews and Muslims in Byzantine Italy: medieval conflicts in local perspective
19 Alice-Mary Talbot: The Miracles of Gregory Palamas by Philotheos Kokkinos
20 Joseph Munitiz: Writing for the heart: the spiritual literature of Byzantium

Part III: Heaven on Earth: Byzantine Art and Architecture
21 Bissera V. Pentcheva: What is a Byzantine icon? Constantinople versus Sinai
22 Vasileios Marinis: Defining liturgical space
23 Warren T. Woodfin: Celestial hierarchies and earthly hierarchies in the art of the Byzantine Church
24 Henry Maguire: Unofficial art and the resistance to Orthodoxy
25 Robert Ousterhout: Constantinople and the construction of a medieval urban identity
26 Nikolas Bakirtzis: The practice, perception and experience of Byzantine fortification
27 Jonathan Shepard: Imperial outliers: building and decorative works in the borderlands and beyond
28 Tassos Papacostas: The medieval progeny of the Holy Apostles: trails of architectural imitation across the Mediterranean
29 Thomas E. A. Dale: Sacred space from Constantinople to Venice

Part IV: The World of Byzantine Studies
30 Diether Roderich Reinsch: The history of editing Byzantine historiographical texts
31 Despina Christodoulou: Byzantium in nineteenth-century Greek historiography
32 Paul Stephenson: Pioneers of popular Byzantine history: Freeman, Gregorovius, Schlumberger
33 Srđan Pirivatrić: A case study in the emergence of Byzantine studies: Serbia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
34 Johann P. Arnason: Byzantium and historical sociology
35 Paul Stephenson: Byzantium’s European future