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A Companion to Byzantium

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Liz James
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John Wiley & Sons, Jan 29, 2010 - Literary Criticism - 488 pages
Using new methodological and theoretical approaches, A Companion to Byzantium presents an overview of the Byzantine world from its inception in 330 A.D. to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
  • Provides an accessible overview of eleven centuries of Byzantine society
  • Introduces the most recent scholarship that is transforming the field of Byzantine studies
  • Emphasizes Byzantium's social and cultural history, as well as its material culture
  • Explores traditional topics and themes through fresh perspectives
  

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Contents

a Very Very Short Introduction
1
the Historiography of Byzantine History
9
Being Byzantine
23
3 Economics Trade and Feudalism
25
4 Byzantium Constantinople
43
5 Provinces and Capital
55
6 Insiders and Outsiders
67
7 Young People in Byzantium
81
the NonChalcedonian Churches
199
Reading Byzantine Texts
225
17 No Drama No Poetry No Fiction No Readership No Literature
227
18 Rhetorical Questions
239
the Form of Storytelling in Byzantium
263
21 Byzantine Book Culture
275
Some Questions in Material Culture
289
22 Archaeology
291

8 The Good the Bad and the Ugly
93
9 The Memory Culture of Byzantium
108
10 Emotions in Byzantium
123
11 Having Fun in Byzantium
135
God and the World
147
12 Byzantine Views of God and the Universe
149
Aspects of Patronage in Byzantine Art
161
Goods Gods and Guidelines
171
15 Christology and Heresy
187
23 Makers and Users
301
24 The Limits of Byzantine Art
313
25 Icons and Iconomachy
323
26 The Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Renaissance
338
Frescoes versus Icons and Crete in the Middle
351
Bibliography Primary Sources
371
Bibliography
384
Index
443
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About the author (2010)

Liz James is Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex. Her books include Light and Colour in Byzantine Art (1996) and Empresses and Power in Early Byzantium (2001).

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