Research Catalog

Title

Authority in Byzantium / edited by Pamela Armstrong.

Publication

• Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

Armstrong, Pamela, Dr.

Description

xiii, 366 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London Publications ; 14

Uniform Title

Publications (King's College London. Centre for Hellenic Studies) ; 14.

Subjects

• Authority > History > To 1500
• Byzantine Empire > Religious life and customs
• Byzantine Empire > Intellectual life
• Byzantine Empire > Social conditions
• Byzantine Empire > Politics and government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The authority of the state -- Aspects of moral leadership : the imperial city, and lucre from legality / Jonathan Shepard -- Trial by ordeal in Byzantium : On whose authority? / Ruth Macrides -- A Case Study: The Use of the Nominative on Imperial Portraits from Antiquity to Byzantium / Sergey Ivanov -- Response / Susan Reynolds -- Authority in the market-place -- Displaying the emperor's authority and kharakter on the marketplace / Cécile Morrisson -- The authority of the Eparchos in the markets of Constantinople (according to the Book of the Eparch) / Johannes Koder -- Response / Chris Wickham -- The authority of the church -- Coming of Age in Byzantium : Agency and Authority in Rites of Passage from Infancy to Adulthood / Jane Baun -- The authority of the Church in uneasy times : the example of Demetrios Chomatenos, Archbishop of Ohrid, in the state of Epiros 1216-1236 / Günter Prinzing -- Response / Miri Rubin -- Authority within the family -- Family ties, bonds of kinship (9th-11th century) / Christine Angelidi -- The limits of marital authority : examining continence in the lives of Saints Julian and Basilissa, and saints Chrysanthus and Daria / Anne P. Alwis -- Response / Jinty Nelson.
• The authority of knowledge -- Knowledge in authority and authorised history : the imperial intellectual programme of Leo VI and Constantine VII / Paul Magdalino -- The Authority of Knowledge in the name of the Authority of Mimesis / Charalambos Bakirtzis -- On whose authority? Regulating medical practice in the twelfth and early thirteenth century / Dionysios Stathakopoulos -- Response / Alexander Murray -- The authority of the text -- Believe it or not : Authority in religious texts / Albrecht Berger -- From the Workshop of Niketas Choniates : The Authority of Tradition and Literary Mimesis / Alicia Simpson -- "And many, many more" : a sixteenth-century description of private libraries in Constantinople, and the authority of books / Marc D. Lauxtermann -- Exhibiting authority in provincial societies -- Organic Local Government and Village Authority / Leonora Neville -- Exhibiting authority in museums -- Exhibiting Authority / Maria Vassilaki -- Authority in Byzantine Studies -- George Ostrogorsky / Ljubomir Maksimović -- Hans-Georg Beck / Vera von Falkenhausen -- Robert Browning / Elizabeth Jeffreys.

Call Number

JFE 17-1260

ISBN

• 9781409436089
• 140943608X

LCCN

2012028962

OCLC

805544836

Title

Authority in Byzantium / edited by Pamela Armstrong.

Publisher

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London Publications ; 14

Publications (King's College London. Centre for Hellenic Studies) ; 14.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: OXFORD UNIV. PAPERS BASED ON 2009 CONFERENCE.

Added Author

Armstrong, Pamela, Dr.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-1260