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Title

Byzantium in the ninth century : dead or alive? : papers from the thirtieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine studies, Birmingham, March 1996 / edited by Leslie Brubaker.

Author

Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (30th : 1996 : Birmingham, England)

Publication

Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

Brubaker, Leslie.

Description

xi, 271 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Publications / Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies ; 5

Uniform Title

Publications (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)) ; 5.

Subject

• Byzantine Empire > Civilization > 527-1081 > Congresses
• Byzantine Empire > Foreign relations > 527-1081 > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The Byzantine state in the ninth century: an introduction / John Haldon -- 2. Reanimation of Roman law in the ninth century: remarks on reasons and results / Marie Theres Fogen -- 3. The Paulicians and ninth-century Byzantine thought / Claudia Ludwig -- 4. The rehabilitation of the Emperor Theophilos / Athanasios Markopoulos -- 5. The imperial thought-world of Leo VI: the non-campaigning emperor of the ninth century / Shaun Tougher -- 6. Byzantine culture in the ninth century: an introduction / Leslie Brubaker -- 7. Byzantium: cultural suicide? / Paul Speck -- 8. Manifestations de la propagande en faveur de l'orthodoxie / Marie-France Auzepy -- 9. Canon and calendar: the role of a ninth-century hymnographer in shaping the celebration of saints / Nancy Patterson Sevcenko -- 10. Reconstructing ninth-century Constantinople / Robert Ousterhout -- 11. The road from Baghdad to Byzantium and the case of the Bryas Palace in Istanbul / Alessandra Ricci --
• 12. Away from the centre: 'provincial' art in the ninth century / Robin Cormack -- 13. Byzantine relations with the outside world in the ninth century: an introduction / Jonathan Shepard -- 14. What has Constantinople to do with Jerusalem? Palestine in the ninth century: Byzantine orthodoxy in the world of Islam / Sidney Griffith -- 15. The road to Baghdad in the thought-world of ninth-century Byzantium / Paul Magdalino -- 16. Byzantium and al-Andalus in the ninth century / Eduardo Manzano Moreno -- 17. Byzance et Italie meridionale / Guislaine Noye -- 18. Ninth-century Byzantium through western eyes / Chris Wickham.

ISBN

0860786862 (hb)

LCCN

97052737

OCLC

• 38144466
• ocm38144466
• SCSB-14300757

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Columbia University Libraries