Margins and metropolis authority across the Byzantine empire /

Herrin, Judith

Margins and metropolis authority across the Byzantine empire / [Texte imprimé] : Judith Herrin - Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, cop. 2013 - 1 vol. (XXIV-365 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm

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Margins -- A Christian Millennium : Greece in Byzantium : How the Empire Worked at Its Edge -- Aspects of the Process of Hellenization in the Early Middle Ages -- Realities of Provincial Government : Hellas and Peloponnesos, 1180-1204 -- The Ecclesiastical Organization of Central Greece at the Time of Michael Choniates : New Evidence from the Codex Atheniensis 1371 -- The Collapse of the Byzantine Empire in the Twelfth Century : A Study of a Medieval Economy -- Byzantine Kythera -- Metropolis -- Byzantium : The Palace and the City -- Philippikos and the Greens -- Philippikos "the Gentle" -- The Historical Context of Iconoclast Reform -- Constantinople, Rome, and the Franks in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries -- The Pentarchy : Theory and Reality in the Ninth Century -- From Bread and Circuses to Soup and Salvation : The Origins of Byzantine Charity -- Ideals of Charity, Realities of Welfare : The Philanthropic Activity of the Byzantine Church -- Mathematical Mysteries in Byzantium : The Transmission of Fermat's Last Theorem -- Book Burning as Purification in Early Byzantium

978-0-691-15301-8

Authority--Social aspects--Byzantine Empire--History Byzantine Empire--Provinces--History Borderlands--Byzantine Empire--History City and town life--Byzantine Empire--History Byzantine Empire--Social life and customs Byzantine Empire--Social conditions Byzantine Empire--Politics and government Christianity and politics--Byzantine Empire--History Byzantine Empire--Intellectual life

949.502