A companion to Byzantium /
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Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Byzantium: a very, very short introduction / Liz James
- Writing histories of Byzantium: the historiography of byzantine history / Fiona Haarer
- Being Byzantine.
- Economics and "Feudalism" / Peter Sarris
- Byzantium = Constantinople / Paul Magdalino
- Provinces and capital / Catherine Holmes
- Insiders and outsiders / Dion Smythe
- Young people in Byzantium / Cecily Hennessy
- The good, the bad and the ugly / Myrto Hatzaki
- The memory culture of Byzantium / Amy Papalexandrou
- Emotions / Martin Hinterberger
- Having fun in Byzantium / Shaun Tougher
- God and the world.
- Byzantine views of God and the universe / Mary Cunningham
- Giving gifts to God: aspects of patronage in Byzantine art / Vassiliki Dimitropoulou
- Orthodoxy and northern peoples: goods, gods and guidelines / Jonathan Shepard
- Christology and heresy / Andrew Louth
- Beyond Byzantium: the non-Chalcedonian churches / Niall Finneran
- Reading Byzantine texts.
- No drama, no poetry, no fiction, no readership, no literature / Margaret Mullett
- Rhetorical questions / Mary Whitby
- Text and context in Byzantine historiography / Roger Scott
- Byzantine narrative: the form of story-telling in Byzantium / Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis and Ingela Nilsson
- Byzantine book culture / Judith Waring
- Some questions in material culture.
- Archaeology / James Crow
- Makers and users / Anthony Cutler
- Art beyond Byzantium / Antony Eastmond
- Icons and iconomachy / Leslie Brubaker
- The rise and fall of the Macedonian Renaissance / John Hanson
- Late and post-Byzantine art under Venetian rule: frescoes versus icons and Crete in the middle / Angeliki Lymberopoulou.