AU  - Jeffreys,Elizabeth
AU  - Haldon,John F.
AU  - Cormack,Robin
TI  - The Oxford handbook of Byzantine studies
SN  - 9780199252466
AV  - DF552 O94 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Patriarchs and patriarchate
KW  - History
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Istanbul (Constantinople)
KW  - Late Roman Empire
KW  - Byzantine Empire
KW  - History.
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - Byzantium
KW  - Emperors
KW  - Patriarchs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. The Discipline -- 1. Byzantine Studies as an academic discipline / Elizabeth Jeffreys, Robin Cormack and John Haldon -- 2. Instrumenta : tools for the study of the discipline --  Primary sources / John Haldon -- Chronology and dating / Anthony Bryer -- Late Roman and Byzantine Weights and weighing equipment / Christopher Entwistle -- Archaeology / James Crow -- Critical approaches to art history / Leslie Brubaker -- Iconography / Kathleen Corrigan -- Literary criticism / Panagiotis A. Agapitos -- Textual criticism / Michael Jeffreys -- Lexicography and electronic textual resources / Erich Trapp -- Greek Palaeography / Nigel Wilson -- Papyrology /Todd Hickey -- Documents : imperial chrysobulls / Andreas Muller -- Documents : Athos / Rosemary Morris -- Documents : Venetian Crete / Sally McKee -- Epigraphy / Cyril Mango --  Sigillography / John Nesbitt -- Numismatics / Eurydike Georganteli -- Prosopography / Dion Smythe -- Dendrochronology / Peter Kunniholm -- Brickstamps / Jonathan Bardill -- Topography of Constantinople / Cecily Hennessy -- Part II . The Physical World : Landscape, Land Use and the Environment -- 1. The political geography of the Byzantine world -- Geographical survey / Mark Whittow -- Political-historical survey /  Geoffrey Greatrex, John Haldon, Catherine Holmes and Angeliki Laiou -- 2. Communications : roads and bridges / Klaus Belke -- 3. Population, demography and disease / Dionysios Stathakopoulos -- 4. Settlement : Town and cities / Helen Saradi -- The Village / Alan Harvey --  5. Buildings and their decoration -- Building materials and techniques / Jonathan Bardill -- Churches and monasteries / Robert Ousterhout -- Secular and military buildings / Charalambos Bakirtzis -- Wallpaintings and mosaics / Robin Cormack -- 6. Production, manufacture and technology -- Agriculture and agricultural technology / Michael Decker -- Fabrics and clothing / Maria Parani -- Silk production / David Jacoby -- Ceramics / Pamela Armstrong -- Metalwork / Marlia Mango -- Ivory, steatite, enamel, and glass / Antony Cutler --  Book production / John Lowden --  Military technology and warfare / John Haldon -- Shipping and seafaring / John Pryor -- Everyday technologies / Michael Decker -- Part III. Institutions and Relationships -- 1. Hierarchies --  Emperor and court / Jeffrey Featherstone -- Bureaucracy and aristocracies / Jean-Claude Cheynet -- Clergy, monks, and laity / Mary Cunningham -- 2. The State : Structures and administration / John Haldon -- The Army /  John Haldon -- Revenues and expenditure / Wolfram Brandes and John Haldon --  3. The Church -- Structures and administration / Michael Angold and Michael Whitby -- The episcopal Councils in the East / Clarence Gallagher -- The Two Churches / Clarence Gallagher -- Liturgy / Robert Taft -- Monasticism and monasteries / John McGuckin -- Charitable institutions / Timothy Miller -- 4. The economy / Alan Harvey -- 5. Society -- Role of women / Liz James -- Families and kinship / Ruth Macrides -- Patronage and retinues / Gunther Prinzing -- Food, wine, and feasting / Anthony Bryer -- Entertainment, theatre and hippodrome / Charlotte Roueche -- Health, hygiene, and healing / Peregrine Hordern -- 6. Justice : legal literature / Bernard Stolte -- 7. The spiritual world -- Byzantine theology / Andrew Louth --  Philosophies / Katerina Hieradiakonou and Dominic O'Meara -- 8. The symbolic world --  Art and text / Henry Maguire -- Art and liturgy / Nancy  Sevcenko -- Art and pilgrimage / Jas Elsner -- Art and iconoclasm / Robin Cormack -- Icons / Maria Vassilak -- Art and the periphery / Antony Eastmond -- 9. Language, education and literacy -- Language / Geoffrey Horrocks -- Education / Athanasios Markopoulos -- Literacy / Michael Jeffreys -- Numeracy and science / Anne Tihon --  Libraries / Nigel Wilson -- 10. Literature -- Rhetoric / Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Historiography / Michael Whitby and Michael Angold -- Theology / Andrew Louth -- Hagiography / Alice-Mary Talbot -- Homilies/ Mary Cunningham -- Epistolography / Margaret Mullett -- Poetry and romances / Wolfram Horander -- Military texts /  Eric McGeer -- 11. Music / Alexander Lingas -- Part IV. The World around Byzantium -- 1. Byzantium and its neighbours /  James Howard-Johnston -- 2. Byzantium's role in world history / Cyril Mango.
N2  - This book presents discussions by experts on all significant aspects of Byzantine Studies. Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Late Roman Empire, from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Its centre was the city formerly known as Byzantium, refounded as Constantinople in 324 ce, the present-day Istanbul. Under its emperors, patriarchs, and all-pervasive bureaucracy, Byzantium developed a distinctive society: Greek in language, Roman in legal system, and Christian in religion. Byzantium's impact in the European Middle Ages is hard to overestimate, as a bulwark against invaders, as a meeting-point for trade from Asia and the Mediterranean, as a guardian of the classical literary and artistic heritage, and as a creator of its own magnificent artistic style.
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