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s This volume contains selected papers from the XV International 10 e Graduate Conference, highlighting the latest scholarship from i a new generation of Late Antique and Byzantine scholars d from around the world. The theme of the conference explored u the interaction between power and the natural and human environments of Byzantium, an interaction that is an essential t L part of the empire’s legacy. This legacy has come down to us a S u through buildings, literature, history and more, and has proved , F c enduring enough to intrigue and fascinate scholars centuries after r a the fall of Constantinople. From religion and trade at the end of n i Maximilian Lau, Caterina Franchi c n Antiquity, imperial propaganda and diplomacy at the end of the h and Morgan Di Rodi (eds) i first millennium, to culture and conquest under the Komnenian a e n s d le and Palaeologan dynasties – this volume demonstrates the length i d D lu and breadth of the forays being made by young academics into the i eSt still often undiscovered country of the Late Antique and Byzantine R c o hi d n world. e i ( oell Landscapes of Power e h d o s ee Maximilian Lau was President of the Oxford University Byzantine ) N Nd Selected Papers from the Society, reading for a DPhil at Oriel College under Mark Whittow on L n a a XV Oxford University Byzantine Society the Reign of Emperor John II Komnenos and the Transformation of nd ne International Graduate Conference the Old Order, 1118–43. s dti c n a a p nz e y Caterina Franchi was Secretary of the Society, reading for a DPhil s B a at Exeter College under Marc Lauxtermann on the Alexander o f 10 Romance and the reception of Alexander the Great in the Medieval P e o tradition. w n e r i Introduction by Peter Frankopan Morgan Di Rodi was Treasurer of the Society, reading for a DPhil t at St Cross College under Bryan Ward-Perkins on the rise of n Christianity as a force in the monumental landscape of Levantine a cities between the fourth and sixth centuries. z y Peter Lang ISBN 978-3-0343-1751-1 B www.peterlang.com s This volume contains selected papers from the XV International 10 e Graduate Conference, highlighting the latest scholarship from i a new generation of Late Antique and Byzantine scholars d from around the world. The theme of the conference explored u the interaction between power and the natural and human environments of Byzantium, an interaction that is an essential t L part of the empire’s legacy. This legacy has come down to us a S u through buildings, literature, history and more, and has proved , F c enduring enough to intrigue and fascinate scholars centuries after r a the fall of Constantinople. From religion and trade at the end of n i Maximilian Lau, Caterina Franchi c n Antiquity, imperial propaganda and diplomacy at the end of the h and Morgan Di Rodi (eds) i first millennium, to culture and conquest under the Komnenian a e n s d le and Palaeologan dynasties – this volume demonstrates the length i d D lu and breadth of the forays being made by young academics into the i eSt still often undiscovered country of the Late Antique and Byzantine R c o hi d n world. i ( oelle Landscapes of Power e h d o s ee Maximilian Lau was President of the Oxford University Byzantine ) N Nd Selected Papers from the Society, reading for a DPhil at Oriel College under Mark Whittow on L n a a XV Oxford University Byzantine Society the Reign of Emperor John II Komnenos and the Transformation of nd ne International Graduate Conference the Old Order, 1118–43. s dti c n a a p nz e y Caterina Franchi was Secretary of the Society, reading for a DPhil s B a at Exeter College under Marc Lauxtermann on the Alexander o f 10 Romance and the reception of Alexander the Great in the Medieval P e o tradition. w n e r i Introduction by Peter Frankopan Morgan Di Rodi was Treasurer of the Society, reading for a DPhil t at St Cross College under Bryan Ward-Perkins on the rise of n Christianity as a force in the monumental landscape of Levantine a cities between the fourth and sixth centuries. z y Peter Lang B www.peterlang.com Landscapes of Power Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies Vol. 10 Edited by Andrew Louth and David Ricks PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • New York • Wien Maximilian Lau, Caterina Franchi and Morgan Di Rodi (eds) Landscapes of Power Selected Papers from the XV Oxford University Byzantine Society International Graduate Conference PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • New York • Wien Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche National biblio- grafie; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Control Number: 2013956722 ISSN 1661-1187 ISBN 978-3-0343-1751-1 (print) ISBN 978-3-0353-0566-1 (eBook) © Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers, Bern 2014 Hochfeldstrasse 32, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland [email protected], www.peterlang.com, www.peterlang.net All rights reserved. All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems. This publication has been peer reviewed. Printed in Germany Contents List of Illustrations ix Maximilian C.G. Lau Preface – Opening Remarks of the XV Conference xi Acknowledgements xv Peter Frankopan Introduction 1 Adrastos Omissi Caput Imperii, Caput Imperatoris: The Display and Mutilation of the Bodies of Emperors in Rome and Beyond, 296–416 17 Mariana Bodnaruk Beyond a Landscape of Conf lict: The Occursus in Fourth-century Rome 31 Morgan Di Rodi Christ and the City: Bishops, Churches and Temples in the Late Antique Levant 55 Thomas J. MacMaster ‘Not With a Bang?’ The Economics of Trade and the End of Byzantine North Africa 73 vi Lorenzo Bondioli Justinian’s Legacy. The Western Byzantine Landscape of Power (VI –VII Century) 93 Vedran Bileta Remapping the Socio-political Landscape on the Fringes of an Imperium: The End of Byzantine Histria 111 Caterina Franchi ‘S’af facciò l’Orda, e il mondo le fu pane’. Landscapes of Destruction in the Apocalyptic Tradition 125 Maria Papadaki Exploring Ecclesiastical Landscapes: Holy Men in the Peloponnese During the Middle Byzantine Period and their Role in the Formation of Religious Landscapes in the Region 143 AnnaLinden Weller Maintaining the Image of Byzantine Power: Normative Ideology in the Epistolary Correspondence of Leo Choirosphaktes and Symeon I of Bulgaria 159 Theofili Kampianaki Vita Basilii: The Power of Rhythm in Constructing the Narrative Landscape of Imperial Propaganda 179 Maximilian C.G. Lau The Power of Poetry – Portraying the Expansion of the Empire under John II Komnenos 195 vii Nicholas Matheou Khoniates’ Asia Minor: Earthly and Ultimate Causes of Decline 215 Katerina Ragkou A Cityscape of Change: From Byzantine to Frankish Corinth 231 Jake Ransohof f All the Tsar’s Men: Ref lections on Power and Society in Asenid Bulgaria (1257–1393) 253 Lorenzo M. Ciolfi John III Vatatzes: History, Myth and Propaganda 273 Kirsty Stewart Literary Animals in a Human Landscape 289 Notes on Contributors 303
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