Authority in Byzantium (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Armstrong, Pamela

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Authority is an important concept in Byzantine culture whose myriad modes of implementation helped maintain the existence of the Byzantine state across so many centuries, binding together people from different ethnic groups, in different spheres of life and activities. Even though its significance to understanding the Byzantine world is so central, it is nonetheless imperfectly understood. The present volume brings together an international cast of scholars to explore this concept. The contributions are divided into nine sections focusing on different aspects of authority: the imperial authority of the state, how it was transmitted from the top down, from Constantinople to provincial towns, how it dealt with marginal legal issues or good medical practice; authority in the market place, whether directly concerning over-the-counter issues such as coinage, weights and measures, or the wider concerns of the activities of foreign traders; authority in the church, such as the extent to which ecclesiastical authority was inherent, or how constructs of religious authority ordered family life; the authority of knowledge revealed through imperial patronage or divine wisdom; the authority of text, though its conformity with ancient traditions, through the Holy scriptures and through the authenticity of history; exhibiting authority through images of the emperor or the Divine. The final section draws on personal experience of three great 'authorities' within Byzantine Studies: Ostrogorsky, Beck and Browning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351956567
• Artikelnr.: 49355580

Autorenporträt

Dr Pamela Armstrong is Director, Oxford Byzantine Ceramics Project, Member of the Sub-faculty of Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, and Member of Common Room, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Part I The Authority of the State: Aspects of moral leadership: the imperial city
and lucre from legality
Jonathan Shepard; Trial by ordeal in Byzantium: on whose authority?
Ruth Macrides; A case study: the use of the nominative on imperial portraits from Antiquity to Byzantium
Sergey Ivanov; Response
Susan Reynolds. Part II Authority in the Market-Place: Displaying the emperor's authority and kharaktèr on the marketplace
Cécile Morrisson; The authority of the Eparchos in the markets of Constantinople (according to the Book of the Eparch)
Johannes Koder; Response
Chris Wickham. Part III The Authority of the Church: Coming of age in Byzantium: agency and authority in rites of passage from infancy to adulthood
Jane Baun; The authority of the Church in uneasy times: the example of Demetrios Chomatenos
archbishop of Ohrid
in the state of Epiros
1216-1236
Gÿnter Prinzing; Response
Miri Rubin. Part IV Authority within the Family: Family ties
bonds of kinship (9th-11th centuries)
Christine Angelidi; The limits of marital authority: examining continence in the lives of Saints Julian and Basilissa
and Saints Chrysanthus and Daria
Anne P. Alwis; Response
Janet Nelson. Part V The Authority of Knowledge: Knowledge in authority and authorised history: the imperial intellectual programme of Leo VI and Constantine VII
Paul Magdalino; The authority of knowledge in the name of the authority of mimesis
Charalambos Bakirtzis; On whose authority? Regulating medical practice in the 12th and early 13th centuries
Dionysios Stathakopoulos; Response
Alexander Murray. Part VI The Authority of the Text: Believe it or not: authority in religious texts
Albrecht Berger; From the workshop of Niketas Choniates: the authority of tradition and literary mimesis
Alicia Simpson; 'And many
many more': a 16th-century description of private libraries in Constantinople
and the authority of books
Marc D. Lauxtermann. Part VII Exhibiting A