Byzantium in the Year 1000

Ultimo aggiornamento: 25 May 2021

Magdalino P.

Byzantium in the Year 1000

A cura di Magdalino P. - BRILL, Leiden - Boston 2003

Series: The Medieval Mediterranean, Vol. 45


A thousand years ago, the Byzantine Empire was reaching the height of its revival as a mediaeval state. The ten contributions to this volume by scholars from six European countries reassess key aspects of the empire's politics and culture in the long reign of the emperor Basil II.

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CONTENTS
Preface .......................................................................................ix
Abbreviations ............................................................................xvii
List of Contributors ...................................................................xix
Marriages towards the Millennium .......................................... 1
Jonathan Shepard
Political Elites in the Reign of Basil II .................................... 35
Catherine Holmes
Basil II and Asia Minor ............................................................ 71
Jean-Claude Cheynet
The Balkan Frontier in the Year 1000 ....................................   109
Paul Stephenson
Between Two Empires: Southern Italy in the
Reign of Basil II .................................................................... ..135
Vera von Falkenhausen
Turning Sisinnios against the Sisinnians:
Eustathios Romaios on a Disputed Marriage ...................... .....161
Ludwig Burgmann
Byzantine History Writing at the End of the
First Millennium .................................................................... ..183
Athanasios Markopoulos
Byzantine Poetry and the Paradox of Basil II’s Reign .......... ..199
Marc Lauxtermann
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Hagiography under the Macedonians: the Two
Recensions of the Metaphrastic Menologion ...................... ....217
Christian Høgel
The Year 1000 in Byzantium .................................................. 233
Paul Magdalino
Index ........................................................................................ 271

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