From Constantinople to the Frontier : The City and the Cities / edited by Nicholas S.M. Matheou, Theofili Kampianaki and Lorenzo M. Bondioli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matheou, Nicholas S. M., editor.

Kampianaki, Theofili, editor.

Bondioli, Lorenzo M., editor.

Series:

Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 106.

The medieval Mediterranean, peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500, 0928-5520 ; volume 106

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--Turkey--Istanbul--History--To 1500--Congresses.

City and town life.

City and town life--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Cities and towns, Ancient--Mediterranean Region--Congresses.

Cities and towns, Ancient.

Borderlands--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Borderlands.

Urban ecology (Sociology)--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Human geography--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Human geography.

Social conditions.

Relations.

History.

Istanbul (Turkey)--Relations--Congresses.

Istanbul (Turkey).

Mediterranean Region--Relations--Congresses.

Mediterranean Region.

Istanbul (Turkey)--Social conditions--Congresses.

Mediterranean Region--Social conditions--Congresses.

International relations.

Turkey--Istanbul.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 520 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Summary:

"From Constantinople to the Frontier : The City and the Cities provides twenty-five articles addressing the concept of centres and peripheries in the late antique and Byzantine worlds, focusing specifically on urban aspects of this paradigm. Spanning from the fourth to thirteenth centuries, and ranging from the later Roman empires to the early Caliphate and medieval New Rome, the chapters reveal the range of factors involved in the dialectic between City, cities, and frontier. Including contributions on political, social, literary, and artistic history, and covering geographical areas throughout the central and eastern Mediterranean, this volume provides a kaleidoscopic view of how human actions and relationships worked with, within, and between urban spaces and the periphery, and how these spaces and relationships were themselves ideologically constructed and understood. Contributors are Walter F. Beers, Lorenzo M. Bondioli, Christopher Bonura, Lynton Boshoff, Averil Cameron, Jeremiah Coogan, Robson Della Torre, Pavla Drapelova, Nicholas Evans, David Gyllenhaal, Franka Horvat, Theofili Kampianaki, Maximilian Lau, Valeria Flavia Lovato, Byron MacDougall, Nicholas S.M. Matheou, Daniel Neary, Jonas Nilsson, Cecilia Palombo, Maria Alessia Rossi, Roman Shliakhtin, Sarah C. Simmons, Andrew M. Small, Jakub Sypiański, Vincent Tremblay and Philipp Winterhager.

Contents:

Part 1 The City

1 Looking Eastwards: The Regina Orientis in Sidonius Apollinaris' Carmen 2 / Lynton Boshoff Boshoff, Lynton 13

2 L'identité romaine est-elle exclusive à Constantinople? Dichotomie entre Byzance et les Balkans à l'époque médiobyzantine (VI^e-XII^e siècles) / Vincent Tremblay Tremblay, Vincent 25

3 City and Sovereignty in East Roman Thought, c.1000-1200: Ioannes Zonaras' Historical Vision of the Roman State / Nicholas S. M. Matheou Matheou, Nicholas S. M. 41

Part 2 Connections & Coercion

4 "Furnish Whatever is Lacking to Their Avarice": The Payment Programme of Cyril of Alexandria / Walter F. Beers Beers, Walter F. 67

5 Constantinopolitan Connections: Liudprand of Cremona and Byzantium / Andrew M. Small Small, Andrew M. 84

6 Strengthening Justice through Friendship and Friendship through Justice: Michael Psellos and the Provincial Judges / Jonas Nilsson Nilsson, Jonas 98

Part 3 The Civic & The Holy

7 Eusebius' Caesarea: The Writing of History and the Dynamics of Ecclesiastical Politics in Fourth-Century Palestine / Robson Della Torre Torre, Robson Della 111

8 Spectatorship in City and Church in Late Antiquity: Theoria Returns to the Festival / Byron MacDougall MacDougall, Byron 127

9 Constantinople and the Desert City: Imperial Patronage of the Judaean Desert Monasteries, 451-565 / Daniel Neary Neary, Daniel 142

10 Citadels of Prayer: The Christian Polis under Siege from the Summer of 502 to the Summer of 626 / David Gyllenhaal Gyllenhaal, David 159

Part 4 The Cities

11 Province in Contrast to City: Irregularities and Peculiarities in the Coinage of Antioch (518-565) / Pavla Drápelová Drápelová, Pavla 175

12 Rome in the Seventh-Century Byzantine Empire: A Migrant's Network Perspective from the Circle of Maximos the Confessor / Philipp Winterhager Winterhager, Philipp 191

13 Rus' Dynastic Ideology in the Frescoes of the South Chapels in St. Sophia, Kiev / Sarah C. Simmons Simmons, Sarah C. 207

14 The Miracle Cycle between Constantinople, Thessalonike, and Mistra / Maria Alessia Rossi Rossi, Maria Alessia 226

Part 5 Reception & Response

15 Constantinople and Alexandria between the Seventh and Eighth Centuries: The Representation of Byzantium in Christian Sources from Conquered Egypt / Cecilia Palombo Palombo, Cecilia 243

16 A Forgotten Translation of Pseudo-Methodius in Eighth-Century Constantinople: New Evidence for the Dispersal of the Greek Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius during the Dark Age Crisis / Christopher Bonura Bonura, Christopher 260

17 Comprendre les " Sarrasins " à Byzance dans la première moitié du IX^e siècle / Jakub Sypianski Sypianski, Jakub 277

Part 6 A Metropolitan Education: Texts & Contexts

18 Byzantine Manuscript Colophons and the Prosopography of Scribal Activity / Jeremiah Coogan Coogan, Jeremiah 297

19 Sayings Attributed to Emperors of Old and New Rome in Michael Psellos' Historia Syntomos / Theofili Kampianaki Kampianaki, Theofili 311

20 Ulysse, Tzetzès et l'education à Byzance / Valeria Flavta Lovato Lovato, Valeria Flavta 326

Part 7 To the Frontier

21 Kastron, Rabad and Ardun: The Case of Artanuji / Nicholas Evans Evans, Nicholas 345

22 From the Frontier Cities to the City, and Back? Reinterpreting Southern Italy in the De administrando imperio / Lorenzo M. Bondioll Bondioll, Lorenzo M. 365

23 Byzantine Art beyond the Borders of the Empire: A Case Study of the Church of St. Chrysogonus in Zara / Franka Horvat Horvat, Franka 385

24 Master of Kastamon, Emperor of Eternity: Ioannes Komnenos as Border-maker and Border-breaker in Theodoros Prodromos' poem 'On the advance to Kastamon' / Roman Shliakhtin Shliakhtin, Roman 425

25 'Ioannoupolis': Lopadion as 'City' and Military Headquarters under Emperor Ioannes II Komnenos / Maximilian Lau Lau, Maximilian 435.

Notes:

Papers from a conference that took place in Oxford, England, in February 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-516) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: From Constantinople to the frontier

ISBN:

9789004307735

9004307737

OCLC:

932068717

Publisher Number:

40026238239

9789004307735