Power and subversion in Byzantium : papers from the 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, March 2010 /

Corporate Author: Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies Birmingham, England)
Other Authors: Angelov, Dimiter,, Saxby, Michael,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Variorum, 2013
Series:Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
Subjects:
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300 |a xvi, 299 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 24 cm 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a Power and subversion in Byzantium : approaches and frameworks / Dimiter Angelov -- Usurpers and rebels in Byzantium : image and message through coins / Vasiliki Penna and Cécile Morrisson -- How to usurp the throne in Byzantium : the role of public opinion in sedition and rebellion / Anthony Kaldellis -- The imperial council and the tradition of consultative decision-making in Byzantium (eleventh to fourteenth centuries) / Demetrios Kyritses -- Financial crisis and the limits of taxation under Andronikos II Palaiologos (1282-1321) / Kostis Smyrlis -- The political arts at the late Palaiologan court (1402-1453) / Michael Angold -- "The world turned upside down" : art and subversion in Byzantium / Liz James -- "It began with a picture" : imperial art, texts and subversion between East and West in the twelfth century / Antony Eastmond -- No prince of perfection : Byzantine anti-Aristotelianism from the patristic period to Pletho / Börje Bydén -- Pletho as subversive and his reception in the Islamic world / Maria Mavroudi -- Generic subversion? : the political ideology of urban myth and apocalyptic prophecy / Paul Magdalino -- Harmless satire, stinging critique : notes and suggestions for reading the Timarion / Dimitris Krallis -- How to criticise the Laudandus / Margaret Mullett -- Subversion and duplicity in the histories of John Kantakouzenos / Athanasios Angelou -- Afterword : literary subversion in Byzantium: a partial and personal perspective / Margaret Alexiou 
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