Byzantine Macedonia : : identity, image and history : papers from the Melbourne conference July 1995 / / edited by John Burke, Roger Scott.

• Superior document: Byzantina Australiensia, Volume 13
• TeilnehmendeR: Burke, John, 1945-; Scott, Roger, 1938-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English; Ancient Greek
• Series: Byzantina Australiensia ; Volume 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (249 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

This is volume 1 of the proceedings of the Byzantine Macedonia conference held in Melbourne in 1995. These nineteen papers are invaluable to anyone interested in the Macedonian heritage or in the economy, administration, history and representation of Macedonia during the course of the Byzantine empire. Vol. 2, Byzantine Macedonia: Art, Architecture, Music and Hagiography , edited by R. Scott and J. Burke, is published separately by the National Centre for Hellenic Studies and Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / John Burke and Roger Scott -- Thessaloniki and Macedonia in the Byzantine period / Angeliki E. Laiou -- Macedonians and Macedonia in Byzantine spatial thinking / Johannes Koder -- The Macedonians of the Byzantine period / Ioannis Tamanidis -- The image of Macedonia as found in Byzantine historians / Johannes Irmscher -- The beginnings and origins of the 'Macedonian' dynasty / Andreas Schminck -- Macedonians in eleventh- and twelfth-century Byzantine historiography / Dion C. Smythe -- Macedonia as reflected in the epistolography of the fourteenth century / Apostolos Karpozilos -- The “καθ’ ἡμᾶς γλῶσσα” in the Mauros’ and Kouber’s episode (Miracula S. Demetrii 291) / Martha Grigoriou-Ioannidou -- The importance of Macedonia during the Byzantine era / Dionyssia Missiou -- Philip and Alexander of Macedon in the literature of the Palaiologan era / Atlumasios Karathanassis -- The Government of the late Late Roman city with special reference to Thessaloniki / J.H.W.G. liebeschuetz -- The development of the theme organisation in Macedonia / Alkmene Stavridou-Zafraka -- Two Archbishops of Achrida (Ochrid) and their significance for Macedonia's secular and church history: Theophylaktos and Demetrios Chomatenos / Gerhard Podskalsky -- Classical Greek Heritage in the Epistles of Theophylaktos of Achrida / Demetrios J. Constantelos -- The Athonites and their neighbours in Macedonia in the tenth and eleventh centuries / Rosemary Morris -- Clergy and laity \'opponents\' in claims for privileges and land from the twelfth to the fourteenth century / Triantafyllitsa Maniati-Kokkini -- Manuel Komnenos' Macedonian military camps: a glamorous alternative court? / Michael Jeffreys -- Westem Macedonia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / V. Nerantzi-Varmazi -- The economy of Byzantine Macedonia in the Palaiologan period / Angeliki E. Laiou -- Index / John Burke and Roger Scott.