Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

xxx, 451 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Blackwell companions to the ancient world

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Byzantium: a very, very short introduction / Liz James -- Writing histories of Byzantium: the historiography of Byzantine history / F.K. Haarer -- Being Byzantine. -- Economics, trade, and "feudalism" / Peter Sarris -- Byzantium = Constantinople / Paul Magdalino -- Provinces and capital / Catherine Holmes -- Insiders and outsiders / Dion Smythe -- Young people in Byzantium / Cecily Hennessy -- The good, the bad and the ugly / Myrto Hatzaki -- The memory culture of Byzantium / Amy Papalexandrou -- Emotions in Byzantium / Martin Hinterberger -- Having fun in Byzantium / Shaun Tougher -- God and the world. -- Byzantine views of God and the universe / Mary Cunningham -- Giving gifts to God: aspects of patronage in Byzantine art / Vassiliki Dimitropoulou -- Orthodoxy and northern peoples: goods, gods and guidelines / Jonathan Shepard -- Christology and heresy / Andrew Louth -- Beyond Byzantium: the non-Chalcedonian churches / Niall Finneran -- Reading Byzantine texts. -- No drama, no poetry, no fiction, no readership, no literature / Margaret Mullett -- Rhetorical questions / Mary Whitby -- Text and context in Byzantine historiography / Roger Scott -- Byzantine narrative: the form of storytelling in Byzantium / Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis and Ingela Nilsson -- Byzantine book culture / Judith Waring -- Some questions in material culture. -- Archaeology / James Crow -- Makers and users / Anthony Cutler -- The limits of Byzantine art / Antony Eastmond -- Icons and iconomachy / Leslie Brubaker -- The rise and fall of the Macedonian Renaissance / John Hanson -- Late and post-Byzantine art under Venetian rule: frescoes versus icons, and Crete in the middle / Angeliki Lymberopoulou.

Byzantine Empire -- History.

Byzantine Empire -- Civilization.

James, Liz.

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