Byzantium in the Ninth Century: Dead or Alive?: Papers from the Thirtieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1996

by Brubaker,Leslie

• ISBN13: 9780860786863
• ISBN10: 0860786862
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-02-21
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

9th-century Byzantium has always been viewed as a mid-point between Iconoclasm and the so-called Macedonian revival; in scholarly terms it is often treated as a 'dead' century. The object of these papers is to question such an assumption. They present a picture of political and military developments, legal and literary innovations, artisanal production, and religious and liturgical changes from the Anatolian plateau to the Greek-speaking areas of Italy that are only now gradually emerging as distinct. Investigation of how the 9th-century Byzantine world was perceived by outsiders also reveals much about Byzantine success and failure in promoting particular views of itself. The chapters here, by an international group of scholars, embody current research in this field; they recover many lost aspects of 9th-century Byzantium and shed new light on the Mediterranean world in a transitional century.The papers in this volume derive from the 30th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies at the University of Birmingham in March 1996.

Table of Contents

The Byzantine State: The Byzantine state in the 9th century: an introduction

Reanimation of Roman law in the 9th century: remarks on reasons and results

The Paulicians and 9th-century Byzantine thought

The rehabilitation of the Emperor Theophilos

The imperial thought-world of Leo VI: the non-campaigning emperor of the 9th century

Byzantine Culture: Byzantine culture in the 9th century: an introduction

Byzantium: cultural suicide?

Manifestations de la propagande en faveur de l'orthodoxie

Canon and calendar: the role of a 9th-century hymnographer in shaping the celebration of saints

Reconstructing 9th-century Constantinople

The road from Baghdad to Byzantium and the case of the Bryas Palace in Istanbul

Away from the centre: 'provincial' art in the 9th century

Byzantium and the Outside World: Byzantine relations with the outside world in the 9th century: an introduction

What has Constantinople to do with Jerusalem? Palestine in the 9th century: Byzantine orthodoxy in the world of Islam

The road to Baghdad in the thought-world of 9th-century Byzantium

Byzantium and al-Andalus in the 9th century

Byzance et Italie méridionale

9th-century Byzantium through western eyes

Index

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