The Byzantine World (Routledge Worlds)

xxx, 606 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm. Contents: Part I: The Byzantines in their world. The Byzantine political process at crisis point / Michael Angold The rise of the middle Byzantine aristocracy and the decline of the imperial state / Paul Stephenson Money, coins and the economy / Cécile Morrisson The army and military logistics / John Haldon The study of women and children : methodological challenges and new directions / Anthony Kaldellis Strong women and their husbands in Byzantine historiography / Leonora Neville Cherchez l'homme! Byzantine men : a eunuch perspective / Shaun Tougher On slaves and slavery / Günter Prinzing Monotheists, dualists and pagans / Christopher Livanos The virtues and faults of the Latin Christians / Tia Kolbaba Part II: The written world. Political literacy / Catherine Holmes Byzantine military manuals : prescriptions, practice and pedagagy / Denis F. Sullivan De cerimoniis and the Great Palace / J.M. Featherstone Rhetoric and performance / Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis Letter-writing / Stratis Papaioannou Trends and developments in the Byzantine poetic tradition / Christopher Livanos The corpus of Byzantine historiography : an interpretive essay / Anthony Kaldellis Christians, Jews and Muslims in Byzantine Italy : medieval conflicts in local perspective / Youval Rotman The miracles of Gregory Palamas by Philotheos Kokkinos / Alice-Mary Talbot Writing for the heart : the spiritual literature of Byzantium / Joseph Munitiz Part III: Heaven on Earth : Byzantine art and architecture. What is a Byzantine icon? Constantinople versus Sinai / Bissera V. Pentcheva Defining liturgical space / Vasileios Marinis Celestial hierarchies and earthly hierarchies in the art of the Byzantine church / Warren T. Woodfin Unofficial art and the resistance to Orthodoxy / Henry Maguire Constantinople and the construction of a medieval urban identity / Robert Ousterhout The practice, perception and experience of Byzantine fortification / Nikolas Bakirtzis Imperial outliers : building and decorative works in the borderlands and beyond / Jonathan Shepard The medieval progeny of the holy apostles : trails of architectural imitation across the Mediterranean / Tassos Papacostas Sacred space from Constantinople to Venice / Thomas E.A. Dale Part IV: The world of Byzantine studies. The history of editing Byzantine historiographical texts / Diether Roberich Reinsch Byzantium in nineteenth-century Greek historiography / Despina Christodoulou Pioneers of popular Byzantine history : Freeman, Gregorovius, Schlumberger / Paul Stephenson A case study in the emergence of Byzantine studies : Serbia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Srđan Pirivatrić Byzantium and historical sociology / Johann P. Arnason Byzantium's European future / Paul Stephenson.…