Byzantium in the Eleventh Century : Being in Between (Hardcover)

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations　　 　

Marc D. Lauxtermann

Introduction

Section I The Age of Psellos

1. Paul Magdalino

From ‘encyclopaedism’ to ‘humanism’: the turning point of Basil II and the millennium

2. Michael Jeffreys

Michael Psellos and the eleventh century: a double helix of reception

3. Floris Bernard

Authorial practices and competitive performance in the works of Michael Psellos

4. Jean-Claude Cheynet

L’administration provinciale dans la correspondance de Michel Psellos

Section II Social Structures

5. James Howard-Johnston

The Peira and legal practices in eleventh-century Byzantium

6. Peter Sarris

Beyond the great plains and the barren hills: rural landscapes and social structures in eleventh-century Byzantium

7. Tim Greenwood

Aristak?s Lastivertc‘i and Armenian urban consciousness

Section III State and Church

8. Mark Whittow

The second fall: the place of the eleventh century in Roman history

9. Jonathan Shepard

Storm clouds and a thunderclap: east-west tensions towards the mid-eleventh century

10. Dimitris Krallis

Urbanite warriors: smoothing out tensions between soldiers and civilians in Attaleiates’ encomium to Emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates

11. Judith Ryder

Leo of Chalcedon: conflicting ecclesiastical models in the Byzantine eleventh century

12. Peter Frankopan

Re-interpreting the role of the family in Comnenian Byzantium: where blood is not thicker than water

Section IV The Age of Spirituality

13. Dirk Krausmuller

From competition to conformity: saints’ lives, typika, and the Byzantine monastic discourse of the eleventh century

14. Barbara Crostini

Eleventh-century monasticism between politics and spirituality

15. Georgi R. Parpulov

The rise of devotional imagery in eleventh-century Byzantium

Index