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Item Number: 121001
Title: Authority in Byzantium
Author: Armstrong, Pamela (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409436089
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 366pp. illus. Part I The Authority of the State: Aspects of moral leadership: the imperial city, and lucre from legality, Jonathan Shepard; Trial by ordeal in Byzantium: on whose authority?, Ruth Macrides; A case study: the use of the nominative on imperial portraits from Antiquity to Byzantium, Sergey Ivanov; Response, Susan Reynolds. Part II Authority in the Market-Place: Displaying the emperor’s authority and kharaktèr on the marketplace, Cécile Morrisson; The authority of the Eparchos in the markets of Constantinople (according to the Book of the Eparch), Johannes Koder; Response, Chris Wickham. Part III The Authority of the Church: Coming of age in Byzantium: agency and authority in rites of passage from infancy to adulthood, Jane Baun; The authority of the Church in uneasy times: the example of Demetrios Chomatenos, archbishop of Ohrid, in the state of Epiros, 1216-1236, Günter Prinzing; Response, Miri Rubin. Part IV Authority within the Family: Family ties, bonds of kinship (9th-11th centuries), Christine Angelidi; The limits of marital authority: examining continence in the lives of Saints Julian and Basilissa, and Saints Chrysanthus and Daria, Anne P. Alwis; Response, Janet Nelson. Part V The Authority of Knowledge: Knowledge in authority and authorised history: the imperial intellectual programme of Leo VI and Constantine VII, Paul Magdalino; The authority of knowledge in the name of the authority of mimesis, Charalambos Bakirtzis; On whose authority? Regulating medical practice in the 12th and early 13th centuries, Dionysios Stathakopoulos; Response, Alexander Murray. Part VI The Authority of the Text: Believe it or not: authority in religious texts, Albrecht Berger; From the workshop of Niketas Choniates: the authority of tradition and literary mimesis, Alicia Simpson; ‘And many, many more’: a 16th-century description of private libraries in Constantinople, and the authority of books, Marc D. Lauxtermann. Part VII Exhibiting Authority in Provincial Societies: Organic local government and village authority, Leonora Neville. Part VIII Exhibiting Authority in Museums: Exhibiting authority: Byzantium 330-1453, Maria Vassilaki. Part IX Authority in Byzantine Studies: George Ostrogorsky, St Petersburg, 19 January 1902-Belgrade, 24 October, 1976, Ljubomir Maksimovic; Hans-Georg Beck, Vera von Falkenhausen; Robert Browning, Elizabeth Jeffreys. (Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London, 14)

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