The Emperor in the Byzantine World Papers from the Forty-Seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies / Edited by Shaun Tougher.

Other author Tougher, Shaun.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Descriptionxxiii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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SeriesSociety for the promotion of byzantine studies ; 21
Contents Family, dynasty, and the construction of legitimacy from Augustus to the Theodosians / Mark Humphries -- The shifting importance of dynasty in Heraclian ideology / Mike Humphreys -- Revisiting the bachelorhood of Basil II / Mark Masterson -- Byzantine emperors and sultans of rum: sharing power? / Dimitri Korobeinikov -- Celibacy and survival in court politics in the fifth century AD / Meaghan McEvoy -- The emperor's "significant others": Alexios I Komnenos and his pivot to the west / Jonathan Shepard -- Who was who at the Court of Constantine XI, 1449-1453 / Jonathan Harris -- Law is king of all things?: the emperor and the law / Bernard H. Stolte -- The emperor at war: duties and ideals / Frank R. Trombley and Shaun Tougher -- Imperial panegyric: hortatory or deliberative oratory? / John Vanderspoel -- The iconoclast saint: Emperor Theophilos in Byzantine hagiography / Oscar Prieto Dom©Ưnguez -- Splendour, vigour, and legitimacy: the prefaces of the Book of Ceremonies (De Cerimoniis) and Byzantine imperial theory / Prerona Prasad -- Ideological and political contestations in post-1204 Byzantium: the orations of Niketas Choniates and the Imperial Court of Nicaea / Nikolaos G. Chrissis -- The emperor in the history of John VI Kantakouzenos (1347-1354) / Savvas Kyriakidis -- The emperor at the threshold: making and breaking taxis at Hagia Sophia / Alicia Walker -- Taking it on the road: the palace on the move / Lynn Jones -- Unveiling Byzantium in Wales: connections and collections / Mark Redknap.
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LCCN 2018051926
ISBN9781138218680 (hardback)
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