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Title

New Constantines : the rhythm of imperial renewal in Byzantium, 4th-13th centuries : papers from the Twenty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, St Andrews, March 1992 / edited by Paul Magdalino.

Author

Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (26th : 1992 : St. Andrews, Scotland)

Publication

Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain : Variorum ; Brookfield, Vt., U.S.A. : Ashgate pub. Co., 1994.

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Additional Authors

Magdalino, Paul.

Description

x, 312 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Publications / Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies ; 2

Uniform Title

Publications (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)) ; 2.

Subject

• Emperors > Byzantine Empire > Congresses
• Byzantine Empire > History > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction / Paul Magdalino -- 2. New men for new Constantines? Creating an imperial elite in the eastern Mediterranean / Peter Heather -- 3. Pius princeps: Theodosius II and fifth-century Constantinople / Jill Harries -- 4. Justinianus Bifrons / Bernard Stolte -- 5. The image of Constantine in Malalas and Theophanes / Roger Scott -- 6. The image of the rightful ruler: Anicia Juliana's Constantine mosaic in the church of Hagios Polyeuktos / Christine Milner -- 7. Images for emperors in Late Antiquity: a search for New Constantine / Michael Whitby -- 8. Constantine or Justinian? Crisis and identity in imperial propaganda in the seventh century / John F. Haldon -- 9. Imperial art in the seventh century / Marlia Mundell Mango -- 10. To legitimize an emperor: Constantine and visual authority in the eight and ninth centuries / Leslie Brubaker -- 11. Constantine the Great in Macedonian historiography: models and approaches / A. Markopoulos -- 12. The wisdom of Leo VI / Shaun F. Tougher.
• 13. Imperial gardens and the rhetoric of renewal / Henry Maguire -- 14. Succession and usurpation: politics and rhetoric in the late tenth century / Rosemary Morris -- 15. Zoe: the rhythm method of imperial renewal / Barbara Hill, Liz James and Dion Smythe -- 16. Imperial renewal and orthodox reaction: Byzatium in the eleventh century / Michael Angold -- 17. A law for emperors: observations on a chrysobull of Nikephoros III Botaneiates / Ludwig Burgmann -- 18. Alexios I Komnenos and imperial renewal / Margaret Mullett -- 19. From the Komnenoi to the Palaiologoi: imperial models in decline and exile / R. J. Macrides -- 20. Royal renewal in Georgia: the case of Queen Tamar / Antony Eastmond -- 21. The Latin emperors as heirs to Byzantium / Peter Lock.

ISBN

0860784096

LCCN

94005125

OCLC

• 29791587
• ocm29791587
• SCSB-14299097

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Columbia University Libraries