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Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in Byzantium and the Medieval Mediterranean The Medieval Mediterranean Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400–1500 Managing Editor Frances Andrews St. Andrews Editors David Abulafia, Cambridge Benjamin Arbel, Tel Aviv Hugh Kennedy, SOAS, London Paul Magdalino, Koç University, Istanbul Olivia Remie Constable, Notre Dame Larry J. Simon, Western Michigan University vOLUME 98 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/mmed Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in Byzantium and the Medieval Mediterranean Comparative Perspectives Edited by Alexander Beihammer Stavroula Constantinou Maria Parani LEIDEN • BOSTON 2013 Cover illustration: Bab-ı Hümayun Gate of the Topkapı Palace, Istanbul ©Photo: Alexander Beihammer Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Court ceremonies and rituals of power in Byzantium and the medieval Mediterranean : comparative perspectives / edited by Alexander Beihammer, Stavroula Constantinou, Maria Parani. pages cm. — (The medieval Mediterranean : peoples, economies and cultures, 400–1500, ISSN 0928-5520 ; volume 98) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-25686-6 (hardback : acid-free paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-25815-0 (e-book) 1. Byzantine Empire—Court and courtiers—History. 2. Rites and ceremonies—Byzantine Empire—History. 3. Political customs and rites—Byzantine Empire—History. 4. Power (Social sciences)—Byzantine Empire—History. 5. Social change—Byzantine Empire—History. 6. Byzantine Empire—Social life and customs. 7. Byzantine Empire—Politics and government. 8. Byzantine Empire—Civilization. 9. Mediterranean Region—Civilization. 10. Comparative civilization. I. Beihammer, Alexander Daniel. II. Constantinou, Stavroula. III. Parani, Maria G. DF531.C68 2013 949.5’02—dc23 2013027836 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 0928-5520 ISBN 978-90-04-25686-6 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-25815-0 (e-book) Copyright 2013 by Koninklijke Brill Nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill Nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill Nv provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. Brill has made all reasonable efforts to trace all rights holders to any copyrighted material used in this work. In cases where these efforts have not been successful the publisher welcomes communications from copyrights holders, so that the appropriate acknowledgements can be made in future editions, and to settle other permission matters. This book is printed on acid-free paper. CONTENTS Acknowledgments .......................................................................................... ix List of Maps and Illustrations ..................................................................... xi List of Contributors ........................................................................................ xv Comparative Approaches to the Ritual World of the Medieval Mediterranean ............................................................................................ 1 Alexander Beihammer PART ONE RITUALS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE ROMAN WORLD 1. Imperial Birthday Rituals in Late Antiquity ..................................... 37 Maria Kantirea 2. Phthonos: A Pagan Relic in Byzantine Imperial Acclamations? ............................................................................................ 51 Martin Hinterberger 3. Ritualized Encounters: Late Roman Diplomacy and the Barbarians, Fifth–Sixth Century ........................................................... 67 Walter Pohl 4. The Architecture of Allegiance in Early Islamic Late Antiquity: The Accession of Muʿāwiya in Jerusalem, ca. 661 CE .................... 87 Andrew Marsham PART TWO SUCCESSION PROCEDURES AND THEIR RITUAL ARTICULATIONS 5. Describing Rituals of Succession and the Legitimation of Kingship in the West, ca. 1000–ca. 1150 .............................................. 115 Björn Weiler vi contents 6. Ritual and Reality: The Bayʿa Process in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Courts ......................................................... 141 Eric J. Hanne 7. Comnenian Imperial Succession and the Ritual World of Niketas Choniates’s Chronike Diegesis ............................................. 159 Alexander D. Beihammer 8. Coronation Speeches in the Palaiologan Period .......................... 203 Antonia Giannouli PART THREE INvENTION, APPROPRIATION AND TRANSFORMATION BETWEEN EAST AND WEST 9. Ritual, Politics, and the City in Mamluk Cairo: The Bayna l-Qaṣrayn as a Mamluk ‘lieu de mémoire’, 1250–1382 ................. 227 Jo Van Steenbergen 10. Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in the Latin Empire of Constantinople ................................................................................... 277 Stefan Burkhardt 11. Featuring the King: Rituals of Coronation and Burial in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia ............................................................. 291 Ioanna Rapti 12. Adventus, Arrivistes and Rites of Rulership in Byzantium and France in the Tenth and Eleventh Century ................................... 337 Jonathan Shepard PART FOUR RITUAL PERFORMANCES AND THEIR REFLECTIONS IN ART AND LITERATURE 13. violence in the Palace: Rituals of Imperial Punishment in Prokopios’s Secret History .................................................................... 375 Stavroula Constantinou contents vii 14. The “Court of Amorous Dominion” and the “Gate of Love”: Rituals of Empire in a Byzantine Romance of the Thirteenth Century ...................................................................................................... 389 Panagiotis A. Agapitos 15. Parodies of Imperial Ceremonial and Their Reflections in Byzantine Art ........................................................................................... 417 Henry Maguire 16. Look like an Angel: The Attire of Eunuchs and Its Significance within the Context of Middle Byzantine Court Ceremonial ............................................................................................... 433 Maria Parani 17. Designing Receptions in the Palace (De Cerimoniis 2.15) ........... 465 Christine Angelidi 18. Tented Ceremony: Ephemeral Performances under the Komnenoi ................................................................................................. 487 Margaret Mullett Bibliography ..................................................................................................... 515 Index ................................................................................................................... 565
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