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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458658003321

Titolo

Byzantium in the Year 1000 / / edited by Paul Magdalino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2003

ISBN

1-280-91461-0

9786610914616

90-474-0409-2

1-4294-0706-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

The Medieval Mediterranean ; ; 45

Disciplina

949.5/02

Soggetti

Kongress

Politik

Electronic books.

Byzantine Empire History Basil II Bulgaroctonus, 976-1025

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Chapters 2-7 originated in papers delivered at the International Congress of Historical Sciences, Oslo, August 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 has come to symbolise the greatness of Byzantium in the



age before the crusades. The first five chapters deal with international diplomacy, the emperor's power, and government in Asia Minor and the frontier provinces of the Balkans and southern Italy. The second half of the volume covers aspects of law, history-writing, poetry and hagiography, and concludes with a discussion of Byzantine attitudes to the Millennium.