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The emperor in the Byzantine world : papers from the forty-seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine studies / edited by Shaun Tougher.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Publications (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)) ; 21.
- Society for the promotion of Byzantine studies ; 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emperors--Byzantine Empire--Congresses.
- Emperors.
- History.
- Politics and government.
- Byzantine Empire--Politics and government--Congresses.
- Byzantine Empire.
- Byzantine Empire--History--Congresses.
- Genre:
- History.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
- Contents:
- Family, dynasty, and the construction of legitimacy from Augustus to the Theodosians / Mark Humphries
- The shifting importance of dynasty in Heraclian ideology / Mike Humphreys
- Revisiting the bachelorhood of Basil II / Mark Masterson
- Byzantine emperors and sultans of rum: sharing power? / Dimitri Korobeinikov
- Celibacy and survival in court politics in the fifth century AD / Meaghan McEvoy
- The emperor's "significant others": Alexios I Komnenos and his pivot to the west / Jonathan Shepard
- Who was who at the Court of Constantine XI, 1449-1453 / Jonathan Harris
- Law is king of all things?: the emperor and the law / Bernard H. Stolte
- The emperor at war: duties and ideals / Frank R. Trombley and Shaun Tougher
- Imperial panegyric: hortatory or deliberative oratory? / John Vanderspoel
- The iconoclast saint: Emperor Theophilos in Byzantine hagiography / Oscar Prieto Domínguez
- Splendour, vigour, and legitimacy: the prefaces of the Book of Ceremonies (De Cerimoniis) and Byzantine imperial theory / Prerona Prasad
- Ideological and political contestations in post-1204 Byzantium: the orations of Niketas Choniates and the Imperial Court of Nicaea / Nikolaos G. Chrissis
- The emperor in the history of John VI Kantakouzenos (1347-1354) / Savvas Kyriakidis
- The emperor at the threshold: making and breaking taxis at Hagia Sophia / Alicia Walker
- Taking it on the road: the palace on the move / Lynn Jones
- Unveiling Byzantium in Wales: connections and collections / Mark Redknap.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138218680
- 1138218685
- OCLC:
- 1065544241
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