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Court ceremonies and rituals of power in Byzantium and the medieval Mediterranean : comparative perspectives / edited by Alexander Beihammer, Stavroula Constantinou, Maria Parani.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks DF531 .C68 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Medieval Mediterranean : peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500 ; volume 98.
- The medieval Mediterranean : peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500, 0928-5520 ; volume 98
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- Social change.
- History.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Political customs and rites.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Courts and courtiers.
- Byzantine Empire--Court and courtiers--History.
- Byzantine Empire.
- Rites and ceremonies--Byzantine Empire--History.
- Political customs and rites--Byzantine Empire--History.
- Power (Social sciences)--Byzantine Empire--History.
- Social change--Byzantine Empire--History.
- Byzantine Empire--Social life and customs.
- Byzantine Empire--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Byzantine Empire--Civilization.
- Civilization.
- Mediterranean Region--Civilization.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Comparative civilization.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 585 pages : illustrations ;c24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, 2013.
- Summary:
- Publicly performed rituals and ceremonies form an essential part of medieval political practice and court culture. This applies not only to western feudal societies, but also to the linguistically and culturally highly diversified environment of Byzantium and the Mediterranean basin. The continuity of Roman traditions and cross-fertilization between various influences originating from Constantinople, Armenia, the Arab-Muslim World, and western kingdoms and naval powers provide the framework for a distinct sphere of ritual expression and ceremonial performance. This collective volume, placing Byzantium into a comparative perspective between East and West, examines transformative processes from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, succession procedures in different political contexts, phenomena of cross-cultural appropriation and exchange, and the representation of rituals in art and literature. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- PART ONE. RITUALS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE ROMAN WORLD
- Imperial birthday rituals in late antiquity / Maria Kantirea
- Phthonos : a pagan relic in Byzantine imperial acclamations? / Martin Hinterberger
- Ritualized encounters : late Roman diplomacy and the Barbarians, fifth-sixth century / Walter Pohl
- The architecture of allegiance in early Islamic late antiquity : the accession of Mu?awiya in Jerusalem, ca. 661 CE / Andrew Marsham
- PART TWO. SUCCESSION PROCEDURES AND THEIR RITUAL ARTICULATIONS
- Describing rituals of succession and the legitimation of kingship in the West, ca. 1000-ca. 1150 / Bjorn Weiler
- Ritual and reality : the Bay?a process in eleventh- and twelfth-century Islamic courts / Eric J. Hanne
- Comnenian imperial succession and the ritual world of Niketas Choniates' Chronike diegesis / Alexander D. Beihammer
- Coronation speeches in the Palaiologan period / Antonia Giannouli
- PART THREE. INVENTION, APPROPRIATION AND TRANSFORMATION BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
- Ritual, politics, and the city in Mamluk Cairo : the Bayna al-Qas?rayn as a Mamluk 'lieu de memoire,' 1250-1382 / Jo Van Steenbergen
- Court ceremonies and rituals of power in the Latin Empire of Constantinople / Stefan Burkhardt
- Featuring the king : rituals of coronation and burial in the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia / Ioanna Rapti
- Adventus, Arrivistes and rites of rulership in Byzantium and France in the tenth and eleventh century / Jonathan Shepard
- PART FOUR. RITUAL PERFORMANCES AND THEIR REFLECTIONS IN ART AND LITERATURE
- Violence in the palace : rituals of imperial punishment in Prokopios's Secret history / Stavroula Constantinoui
- The "Court of Amorous Dominion" and the "Gate of Love" : rituals of empire in a Byzantine romance of the thirteenth century / Panagiotis A. Agapitos
- Parodies of imperial ceremonial and their reflections in Byzantine art / Henry Maguire
- Look like an angel : the attire of eunuchs and its significance within the context of Middle Byzantine court ceremonial / Maria Parani
- Designing receptions in the palace (De Cerimoniis 2.15) / Christine Angelidi
- Tented ceremony : ephemeral performances under the Komnenoi / Margaret Mullett.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004256866
- 9004256865
- OCLC:
- 855362590
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