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ISBN 10: 140512654X

ISBN 13: 9781405126540

Author: Liz James

Using new methodological and theoretical approaches, A Companion to Byzantium presents an overview of the Byzantine world from its inception in 330 A.D. to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Provides an accessible overview of eleven centuries of Byzantine society Introduces the most recent scholarship that is transforming the field of Byzantine studies Emphasizes Byzantium’s social and cultural history, as well as its material culture Explores traditional topics and themes through fresh perspectives

A Companion to Byzantium 1st Table of contents:

1. Byzantium: a Very, Very Short Introduction 
Liz James

2. Writing Histories of Byzantium: the Historiography of Byzantine History 
F. K. Haarer

Part I Being Byzantine 

3. Economics, Trade, and “Feudalism” 
Peter Sarris

4. Byzantium ?­?nConstantinople 
Paul Magdalino

5. Provinces and Capital 
Catherine Holmes

6. Insiders and Outsiders 
Dion C. Smythe

7. Young People in Byzantium 
Cecily Hennessy

8. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 
Myrto Hatzaki

9. The Memory Culture of Byzantium 
Amy Papalexandrou

10. Emotions in Byzantium 
Martin Hinterberger

11. Having Fun in Byzantium 
Shaun Tougher

Part II God and the World 

12. Byzantine Views of God and the Universe 
Mary Cunningham

13. Giving Gifts to God: Aspects of Patronage in Byzantine Art 
Vassiliki Dimitropoulou

14. Orthodoxy and Northern Peoples: Goods, Gods and Guidelines 
Jonathan Shepard

15. Christology and Heresy 
Andrew Louth

16. Beyond Byzantium: the Non-Chalcedonian Churches 
Niall Finneran

Part III Reading Byzantine Texts 

17. No Drama, No Poetry, No Fiction, No Readership, No Literature 
Margaret Mullett

18. Rhetorical Questions 
Mary Whitby

19. Text and Context in Byzantine Historiography 
Roger Scott

20. Byzantine Narrative: the Form of Storytelling in Byzantium 
Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis and Ingela Nilsson

21. Byzantine Book Culture 
Judith Waring

Part IV Some Questions in Material Culture 

22. Archaeology 
James Crow

23. Makers and Users 
Anthony Cutler

24. The Limits of Byzantine Art 
Antony Eastmond

25. Icons and Iconomachy 
Leslie Brubaker

26. The Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Renaissance 
John Hanson

27. Late and Post-Byzantine Art under Venetian Rule: Frescoes versus Icons, and Crete in the Middle

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