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Authority in ByzAntium Centre For hellenic Studies King’s College London Publications 14 Authority in ByzAntium edited by Pamela Armstrong First Published 2013 by Ashgate Publisher Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © Pamela Armstrong 2013 Pamela Armstrong has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editor of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Authority in Byzantium. — (Publications of the Centre for hellenic Studies, King’s College London ; v. 14) 1. Byzantine Empire—Politics and government. 2. Power (Social sciences—Byzantine Empire. 3. Social control—Byzantine Empire. 4. Authority—history—to 1500. i. Series ii. Armstrong, Pamela, Dr. ' 949.502–dc23 The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Authority in Byzantium / edited by Pamela Armstrong. pages cm. — (Publications of the Centre for hellenic Studies, King’s College London) includes bibliographical references and index. iSBn 978-1–4094-3608–9 (hardback) 1. Byzantine Empire—Politics and government. 2. Authority—history—to 1500. 3. Byzantine Empire—religious life and customs. 4. Byzantine Empire—intellectual life. 5. Byzantine Empire—Social conditions. i. Armstrong, Pamela, Dr. DF545.A95 2013 ' 303.3304950902—dc23 2012028962 iSBn 9781409436089 (hbk) thE CEntrE For hELLEniC StuDiES, KinG’S CoLLEGE LonDon, PuBLiCAtionS 14 For Judith Herrin. Contents List of illustrations xi List of Contributors xv Preface xxi introduction 1 Part I The Authority of the State 1 Aspects of moral Leadership: The imperial City and Lucre from Legality 9 Jonathan Shepard 2 trial by ordeal in Byzantium: on whose Authority? 31 Ruth Macrides 3 A Case Study: The use of the nominative on imperial Portraits from Antiquity to Byzantium 47 Sergey Ivanov 4 response 59 Susan Reynolds Part ii Authority in the marketplace 5 Displaying the Emperor’s Authority and Kharaktèr on the marketplace 65 Cécile Morrisson 6 The Authority of the Eparchos in the markets of Constantinople (according to the Book of the Eparch) 83 Johannes Koder 7 response 109 Chris Wickham viii AuthoRIty In ByzAntIuM Part III The Authority of the Church 8 Coming of Age in Byzantium: Agency and Authority in rites of Passage from infancy to Adulthood 113 Jane Baun 9 The Authority of the Church in uneasy times: The Example of Demetrios Chomatenos, Archbishop of ohrid, in the State of Epiros 1216–1236 137 Günter Prinzing 10 response 151 Miri Rubin Part IV Authority within the Family 11 Family ties, Bonds of Kinship (9th–11th Centuries) 155 Christine Angelidi 12 The Limits of marital Authority: Examining Continence in the Lives of Saints Julian and Basilissa, and Saints Chrysanthus and Daria 167 Anne P. Alwis 13 response 181 Janet nelson Part V The Authority of Knowledge 14 Knowledge in Authority and Authorised history: The imperial intellectual Programme of Leo Vi and Constantine Vii 187 Paul Magdalino 15 The Authority of Knowledge in the name of the Authority of Mimesis 211 Charalambos Bakirtzis 16 on Whose Authority? regulating medical Practice in the twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries 227 Dionysios Stathakopoulos 17 response 239 Alexander Murray ContEntS ix Part VI The Authority of the Text 18 Believe it or not: Authority in religious texts 247 Albrecht Berger 19 From the Workshop of niketas Choniates: The Authority of tradition and Literary mimesis 259 Alicia Simpson 20 ‘And many, many more’: A Sixteenth-Century Description of Private Libraries in Constantinople, and the Authority of Books 269 Marc D. Lauxtermann Part VII Exhibiting Authority in Provincial Societies 21 organic Local Government and Village Authority 285 Leonora neville Part VIII Exhibiting Authority in Museums 22 Exhibiting Authority: Byzantium 330–1453 299 Maria Vassilaki Part IX Authority in Byzantine Studies 23 George ostrogorsky St Petersburg, 19 January 1902–Belgrade, 24 october, 1976 327 Ljubomir Maksimović 24 hans-Georg Beck 337 Vera von Falkenhausen 25 robert Browning 345 Elizabeth Jeffreys index 355
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