Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, 2013.

xix, 366 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London

Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Authority in the market-place -- Displaying the emperor's authority and kharakter 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 -- 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 -- Authority within the family -- Family ties, bonds of kinship (9th-11th century) / 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 / Jinty Nelson -- 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 twelfth and early thirteenth century / Dionysios Stathakopoulos -- Response / Alexander Murray -- 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 sixteenth-century description of private libraries in Constantinople, and the authority of books / Marc D. Lauxtermann -- Exhibiting authority in provincial societies -- Organic Local Government and Village Authority / Leonora Neville -- Exhibiting authority in museums -- Exhibiting Authority / Maria Vassilaki -- Authority in Byzantine Studies -- George Ostrogorsky / Ljubomir Maksimović -- Hans-Georg Beck / Vera von Falkenhausen -- Robert Browning / Elizabeth Jeffreys.

Byzantine Empire -- Politics and government.

Authority -- History -- To 1500.

Byzantine Empire -- Religious life and customs.

Byzantine Empire -- Intellectual life.

Byzantine Empire -- Social conditions.

Armstrong, Pamela, Dr.

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