Byzantium in the year 1000 / / edited by Paul Magdalino.
One thousand years ago, the Byzantine Empire was reaching the height of its revival as a medieval state. The ten contributions to this volume by scholars from six European countries re-assess key aspects of the empire's politics and culture in the long reign of the emperor Basil II, whose name...
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| Superior document: | The medieval Mediterranean, v. 45 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medieval Mediterranean ;
v. 45. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Notes: | Chapters 2-7 originated in papers delivered at the International Congress of Historical Sciences, Oslo, August 2000. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1.Jonathan Shepard, Marriages towards the Millennium
- 2.Catherine Holmes, Political Elites in the Reign of Basil II
- 3.Jean-Claude Cheynet, Basil II and Asia Minor
- 4.Paul Stephenson, The Balkan Frontier in the Year 1000
- 5.Vera von Falkenhausen, Between Two Empires: Southern Italy in the Reign of Basil II
- 6.Ludwig Burgmann, Turning Sisinnios against the Sisinnians: Eustathios Romaios on a Disputed Marriage
- 7.Athanasios Markopoulos, Byzantine History Writing at the End of the First Millennium
- 8.Marc Lauxtermann, Byzantine Poetry and the Paradox of Basil II's Reign
- 9.Christian Høgel, Hagiography under the Macedonians: the Two Recensions of the Metaphrastic Menologion
- 10.Paul Magdalino, The Year 1000 in Byzantium.