Margins and metropolis : authority across the Byzantine Empire / Judith Herrin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herrin, Judith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authority--Social aspects--Byzantine Empire--History.

Authority.

Borderlands--Byzantine Empire--History.

Borderlands.

City and town life--Byzantine Empire--History.

City and town life.

Christianity and politics--Byzantine Empire--History.

Christianity and politics.

Byzantine Empire--Provinces--History.

Byzantine Empire.

Byzantine Empire--Social life and customs.

Byzantine Empire--Social conditions.

Byzantine Empire--Politics and government.

Byzantine Empire--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, Judith Herrin shows how the prestige of Constantinople was reflected in the military, civilian, and ecclesiastical officials sent out to govern the provinces. She evokes the ideology and culture of the center by examining different aspects of the imperial court, including diplomacy, ceremony, intellectual life, and relations with the church. Particular topics treat the transmission of mathematical manuscripts, the burning of offensive material, and the church's role in distributing philanthropy. Herrin contrasts life in the capital with provincial life, tracing the adaptation of a largely rural population to rule by Constantinople from the early medieval period onward. The letters of Michael Choniates, archbishop of Athens from 1182 to 1205, offer a detailed account of how this highly educated cleric coped with life in an imperial backwater, and demonstrate a synthesis of ancient Greek culture and medieval Christianity that was characteristic of the Byzantine elite. This collection of essays spans the entirety of Herrin's influential career and draws together a significant body of scholarship on problems of empire. It features a general introduction, two previously unpublished essays, and a concise introduction to each essay that describes how it came to be written and how it fits into her broader analysis of the unusual brilliance and longevity of Byzantium.

Contents:

Margins

A Christian Millennium : Greece in Byzantium : How the Empire Worked at Its Edge

Aspects of the Process of Hellenization in the Early Middle Ages

Realities of Provincial Government : Hellas and Peloponnesos, 1180-1204

The Ecclesiastical Organization of Central Greece at the Time of Michael Choniates : New Evidence from the Codex Atheniensis 1371

The Collapse of the Byzantine Empire in the Twelfth Century : A Study of a Medieval Economy

Byzantine Kythera

Metropolis

Byzantium : The Palace and the City

Philippikos and the Greens

Philippikos "the Gentle"

The Historical Context of Iconoclast Reform

Constantinople, Rome, and the Franks in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries

The Pentarchy : Theory and Reality in the Ninth Century

From Bread and Circuses to Soup and Salvation : The Origins of Byzantine Charity

Ideals of Charity, Realities of Welfare : The Philanthropic Activity of the Byzantine Church

Mathematical Mysteries in Byzantium : The Transmission of Fermat's Last Theorem

Book Burning as Purification in Early Byzantium.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781400845224

140084522X

9781299133327

1299133320

OCLC:

828423719