Margins and Metropolis (eBook)

Authority across the Byzantine Empire

Judith Herrin (Autor)

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2013
392 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4522-4 (ISBN)

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Judith Herrin is the Constantine Leventis Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London. She is the author of Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium, and The Formation of Christendom (all Princeton).

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This volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, Judith Herrin shows how the prestige of Constantinople was reflected in the military, civilian, and ecclesiastical officials sent out to govern the provinces. She evokes the ideology and culture of the center by examining different aspects of the imperial court, including diplomacy, ceremony, intellectual life, and relations with the church. Particular topics treat the transmission of mathematical manuscripts, the burning of offensive material, and the church's role in distributing philanthropy.Herrin contrasts life in the capital with provincial life, tracing the adaptation of a largely rural population to rule by Constantinople from the early medieval period onward. The letters of Michael Choniates, archbishop of Athens from 1182 to 1205, offer a detailed account of how this highly educated cleric coped with life in an imperial backwater, and demonstrate a synthesis of ancient Greek culture and medieval Christianity that was characteristic of the Byzantine elite.This collection of essays spans the entirety of Herrin's influential career and draws together a significant body of scholarship on problems of empire. It features a general introduction, two previously unpublished essays, and a concise introduction to each essay that describes how it came to be written and how it fits into her broader analysis of the unusual brilliance and longevity of Byzantium.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2015
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: acclamation • Anatolia • Ancient Texts • Angeloi • arab conquests • arabs • Arithmetika • Artemios • Asia Minor • Athens • authority • Balkan Peninsula • Balkans • Basilica • bishoprics • Bishops • Blues • book burning • book destruction • Bread • bulgars • bureaucratic administration • burial • Byzantine charity • Byzantine church • Byzantine culture • Byzantine economy • Byzantine elite • Byzantine Empire • Byzantine Greeks • Byzantine navy • Byzantine Society • Byzantion • Byzantium • Byzantium (color) • Byzantium under the Constantinian and Valentinian dynasties • Caliphate • Central Greece • Central Greece (region) • cephalonia • Ceremonies • Chalcedon • charitable institutions • Charity • Cherson (theme) • Choniates • Christ • Christendom • Christianity • Christians • Church Fathers • circuses • circus factions • civilian administration • Clergy • Clerical celibacy • Codex Atheniensis 1371 • condemnation • Constantine • Constantine V • Constantine VII • Constantinople • Council in Trullo • coup d'tat • dark ages • Determination • Diocese • Diophantus • diplomatic relations • Doukas (historian) • Early Middle Ages • Early Muslim conquests • ecclesiastical administration • ecclesiastical organization • ecclesiastical philanthropy • Economic organization • ecumenical council • Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople • Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople • edict • Eighth Ecumenical Council • Emperor • Epirus • European diplomacy • Fermat's Last Theorem • Filioque • foreign policy • Fourth Crusade • franks • Generosity • gentleness • good works • Great Palace • Greece • Greeks • greens • Hellas • Hellenism • Hellenistic period • hellenization • Herakleios • Heresy • Hippodrome • Hosia Elesse • Hosios Theodoros • Hostel • Iconoclasm • iconoclast reform • imperial court • imperial government • income • Indigenous population • intellectual power • Justinian II • Justin II • Kythera • Kythira • Laconia • Late Antiquity • Latin Empire • Leo III • Leontios • Leo the Mathematician • local government officials • Love • marriage • mathematical problems • Mathematicians • Medieval Christianity • medieval Greek • Megas doux • Merchants • Michael Choniates • Middle Ages • Military Administration • military campaign • Monastery • Monemvasia • Monotheletism • Mount Athos • Neoplatonism • Nikephoros (Caesar) • Nikolaos • Notitia episcopatuum • number problems • Opsikion • Orthodoxy • Papal legate • Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai • Partition Treaty • Patras • Patriarch • patriarchate • Patriarch Photios • Peloponnese • Peloponnesos • pentarchy • Persecution • philanthropy • Philippikos • Pierre de Fermat • Pippin III • Political power • Pope • Pope Gregory I • Pope Nicholas I • praos • provincial government • provincial life • Purification • queen city • Religion • Roman Empire • Roman law • Rome • Salvation • sicily • Slavs • soldiers • soup • southern Italy • spoken Greek • Supporter • synod • Tax • The Christian Community • the monastery • theocracy • Theodosios (Hanna) • Theology • The Philosopher • The Satanic Verses • Thessaloniki • tomb • Venetians • warfare • Wealth • welfare • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4522-X / 140084522X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4522-4 / 9781400845224