Court ceremonies and rituals of power in Byzantium and the medieval Mediterranean : comparative perspectives / edited by Alexander Beihammer, Stavroula Constantinou, Maria Parani.
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2013.
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Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, 2013.
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xviii, 585 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 25 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents |
PART ONE. RITUALS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE ROMAN WORLD -- Imperial birthday rituals in late antiquity / Maria Kantirea -- Phthonos : a pagan relic in Byzantine imperial acclamations? / Martin Hinterberger -- Ritualized encounters : late Roman diplomacy and the Barbarians, fifth-sixth century / Walter Pohl -- The architecture of allegiance in early Islamic late antiquity : the accession of Mu?awiya in Jerusalem, ca. 661 CE / Andrew Marsham -- PART TWO. SUCCESSION PROCEDURES AND THEIR RITUAL ARTICULATIONS -- Describing rituals of succession and the legitimation of kingship in the West, ca. 1000-ca. 1150 / Bjorn Weiler -- Ritual and reality : the Bay?a process in eleventh- and twelfth-century Islamic courts / Eric J. Hanne -- Comnenian imperial succession and the ritual world of Niketas Choniates' Chronike diegesis / Alexander D. Beihammer -- Coronation speeches in the Palaiologan period / Antonia Giannouli -- PART THREE. INVENTION, APPROPRIATION AND TRANSFORMATION BETWEEN EAST AND WEST -- Ritual, politics, and the city in Mamluk Cairo : the Bayna al-Qas?rayn as a Mamluk 'lieu de memoire,' 1250-1382 / Jo Van Steenbergen -- Court ceremonies and rituals of power in the Latin Empire of Constantinople / Stefan Burkhardt -- Featuring the king : rituals of coronation and burial in the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia / Ioanna Rapti -- Adventus, Arrivistes and rites of rulership in Byzantium and France in the tenth and eleventh century / Jonathan Shepard -- PART FOUR. RITUAL PERFORMANCES AND THEIR REFLECTIONS IN ART AND LITERATURE -- Violence in the palace : rituals of imperial punishment in Prokopios's Secret history / Stavroula Constantinoui -- The "Court of Amorous Dominion" and the "Gate of Love" : rituals of empire in a Byzantine romance of the thirteenth century / Panagiotis A. Agapitos -- Parodies of imperial ceremonial and their reflections in Byzantine art / Henry Maguire -- Look like an angel : the attire of eunuchs and its significance within the context of Middle Byzantine court ceremonial / Maria Parani -- Designing receptions in the palace (De Cerimoniis 2.15) / Christine Angelidi -- Tented ceremony : ephemeral performances under the Komnenoi / Margaret Mullett.
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9789004256866 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
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