Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium 9780141911366, 9780691095004

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Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium
9780141911366, 9780691095004

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Table of contents :
List of illustrations --
List of maps --
Introduction : a different history of Byzantium --
I. FOUNDATIONS OF BYZANTIUM --
1. The city of Constantine --
2. Constantinople, the largest city in Christendom --
3. The East Roman Empire --
4. Greek Orthodoxy --
5. The church of Hagia Sophia --
6. The Ravenna Mosaics --
7. Roman law --
II. THE TRANSITION FROM ANCIENT TO MEDIEVAL --
8. The bulwark against Islam --
9. Icons, a new Christian art form --
10. Iconoclasm and icon veneration --
11. A literate and articulate society --
12. Saints Cyril and Methodios, 'apostles to the Slavs' --
III. BYZANTIUM BECOMES A MEDIEVAL STATE --
13. Greek fire --
14. The Byzantine economy --
15. Eunuchs --
16. The imperial court --
17. Imperial children, 'born in the purple' --
18. Mount Athos --
19. Venice and the fork --
20. Basil II, 'the bulgar-slayer' --
21. Eleventh-century crisis --
22. Anna Komnene --
23. A cosmopolitan society --
IV. VARIETIES OF BYZANTIUM --
24. The fulcrum of the crusades --
25. The towers of Trebizond, Arta, Nicaea and Thessanlonike --
26. Rebels and patrons --
27. 'Better the Turkish turban than the Papal tiara' --
28. The siege of 1453 --
Conclusion : the greatness and legacy of Byzantium --
Further reading --
List of emperors named in the text --
Chronology --
Maps --
Acknowledgments --
Index.

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