Eastern approaches to Byzantium : papers from the Thirty-third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, March 1999 9780754603221, 0754603229

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Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Pub lie a tions

EASTERN APPROACHES TO BYZANTIUM

9

Papers from the Thirty-third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, March 1999

edited by

Antony Eastmond

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fo r the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Hon . Se rela ry, j,111ws row, Dept of Archaeology, The University, Newcastl -u po n T n ' NE ! 7RU All rights res rv d . Nl>pa rt of this publication rnay be reprodu ced , stored in a retri va I sysl ' 111, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electroni , m ' hani a l, pho tocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prio r permi ssion of the publisher.

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Published by Variorurn for the Society for th e Pro m lio n of Byzantine Studies Ashgate Publishing Limit d Gower House, Croft Road Aldershot, Hampshire GUl 1 HR Great Britain

Abbreviations List of Figures Preface

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Introduction 1.

ISBN 0-7546-0322-9

Speros Vryonis Jr

Ashgate website: http:/ /www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Eastern Approaches to Byzantium: Papers from the Thirty-Third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, March 1999. (Publications for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine studies; 9) 1. Byzantine Empire - History - Congresses. 2. Byzantine Empire - Historiography Congresses I. Eastmond, Antony II. Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies III. Byzantine Studies Symposium (33rd: 1999: University of Warwick, Coventry) 949.5'02

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xiv Antony Eastmond

The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century: The book in the light of · subsequent scholarship, 1971-98

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Section I Byzantium's eastern frontier 2.

Jonathan Shepard

3.

Catherine Holmes

4.

Jean-Claude Cheynet

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Constantine VII, Caucasian openings and the road to Aleppo 'How the east was won' in the reign of Basil II La conception militaire de la frontiere orientale nxe-xme siecle)

19 41 57

Section II History writing in the east 5.

Carole Hillenbrand

6.

Robert W. Thomson

7.

Stephen H . Rapp Jr

Some reflections on Seljuq historiography The concept of 'history' in medieval Armenian historians From bumberazi to basileus: writing cultural synthesis and dynastic change in medieval Georgia (K'art'li)

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Section III Byzantines 8. 9.

B a ring gifts from the east: imperial reli hunters abroad Catherine Jolivet-Levy Art hretien en Anatolie turque: le temoig nage d e peintures inedites a Tatlarin

LizJames

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List of abbreviations 133

Section IV Georgians 10.

Zaza Skhirtladze

11.

Brigitta Schrade

12.

Giorgi Tcheishvili

13.

David Buckton

Newly discovered early paintings in the Gareja d esert Byzantium and its eastern barbarians: the cult of saints in Svanet'i Georgian perceptions of Byzantium in the eleventh and twelfth centuries Stalin and Georgian enamels

149 169 199 211

AB ABAW

Analecta Bollandiana Abhandlungen der bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Abuldaze, Monuments I. Abuladze, ed., Dzveli k'art'uli agiograp'iuli literaturis dzeglebi (Monuments of old Georgian hagiographical literature) 3 vols (Tbilisi, 1963-71)

Section V

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Armenians

14.

Lynn Jones

15.

Helen C. Evans

The visual expression of power and piety in medieval Armenia: the palace 221 and palace church at Aghtamar Imperial aspirations: Armenian Cilicia and Byzantium in the 243 thirteenth century

AnatStud ANSMN AP BAR BHL

Section VI Seljuqs and Turkomans 16.

Rustam Shukurov

17.

Pamela Armstrong

Index

Turkoman and Byzantine self-identity. Some reflections on the logic of titlemaking in twelfth- and thirteenthcentury Anatolia 259 Seljuqs before the Seljuqs: nomads 277 and frontiers inside Byzantium 287

BK BMGS BS ByzF ByzSlav BZ CahArch CCM CFHB

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American Journal of Archaeology Abhandlungen der philologisch-historische Klasse der Konigliche Gessellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gottingen Anatolian Studies American Numismatic Society. Museum Notes 'ApxEfov TT6vTOU

British Archaeological Reports Bibliotheca hagiographica latina antiquae et medinae aetatis Bedi Kartlisa Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Byzantina sorbonensia Byzantinische Forschungen Byzantinoslavica Byzantinische Zeitschrift Cahiers Archeologiques Cahiers de civilisation medievale Corpus fontium historiae byzantinae Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium Corpus scriptorum historiae byzantinae L1EA TIOV Tf!) Xp1aTtaVIK1] 8e4> moTos [:,omAevs Ko1 ovToKpo:Twp TTO:OTJS 'AvoTOArJS, 'l[:,fipwv KOi DepoTEios o MEyos KoµvT)v6s . The short variant of this reads: [:,omAevs KOi ovToKpo:Twp so Muntajab al-Din Bade' Atabek al-Juwayni, Kitab 'atabat al-kataba. Murasilat-i diwan-i sultan Sanjar, ed. M. Qazwini (Tehran, 1329), 42. It is interesting that Georgian royal titles of

the twelfth-thirteenth centuries proclaimed the sovereign as ruler of the East and West: Gruzinskie dokumenty, trans. S. Kakabadze (Moscow, 1982), no. 9, 10, 12- 14. This may be

connected with Seljuq usage. 51 Usually, Arabic-speaking Orthodox Christians of Antioch employed mashriq for rendering