The Emperor in the Byzantine World -

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Editeur : Routledge

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/03/2019

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 404

Expédition : 739

Dimensions : 24.0 x 16.1 x 2.6

ISBN : 1138218685

Biographie:

Shaun Tougher is Reader in Ancient History at Cardiff University. He specialises in late Roman and Byzantine political and social history. His publications include The Reign of Leo VI (886-912) (1997), Julian the Apostate (2007), The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society (2008), Emperor and Author: The Writings of Julian the Apostate (2012, co-edited with Nicholas Baker-Brian), and Approaches to the Byzantine Family (2013, co-edited with Leslie Brubaker). He is a Series Editor for Palgrave Macmillan's New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture.

Sommaire:

List of figures; Foreword; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Note on spelling of names; Introduction, Shaun Tougher; Part I: Dynasty: Imperial families; 1. Family, dynasty, and the construction of legitimacy from Augustus to the Theodosians, Mark Humphries; 2. The shifting importance of dynasty in Heraclian ideology, Mike Humphreys; 3. Revisiting the bachelorhood of Basil II, Mark Masterson; 4. Byzantine emperors and sultans of R?m: Sharing power?, Dimitri Korobeinikov; Part II: The emperor's Men: Court and empire; 5. Celibacy and survival in court politics in the fifth century AD, Meaghan McEvoy; 6. The emperor's 'significant others': Alexios I Komnenos and his 'Pivot to the West', Jonathan Shepard; 7. Who was who at the court of Constantine XI, 1449-1453, Jonathan Harris; Part III: The emperor as ruler: Duties and ideals; 8. 'Law is king of all things'? The emperor and the law, Bernard H. Stolte; 9. The emperor at war: Duties and ideals, Frank R. Trombley and Shaun Tougher; Part IV: Imperial literature: Emperor as subject and author; 10. Imperial panegyric: Hortatory or deliberative oratory?, John Vanderspoel; 11. The iconoclast saint: Emperor Theophilos in Byzantine hagiography, Oscar Prieto Dom?nguez; 12. Splendour, vigour, and legitimacy: The prefaces of the Book of Ceremonies (De cerimoniis) and Byzantine imperial theory, Prerona Prasad; 13. Ideological and political contestations in post-1204 Byzantium: The orations of Niketas Choniates and the imperial court of Nicaea, Nikolaos G. Chrissis; 14. The emperor in the History of John VI Kantakouzenos (1347-1354), Savvas Kyriakidis; Part V: The material emperor: Image, space and empire; 15. The emperor at the threshold: Making and breaking taxis at Hagia Sophia, Alicia Walker; 16. Taking it on the road: The palace on the move, Lynn Jones; 17. Unveiling Byzantium in Wales: Connections and collections, Mark Redknap; Index