Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction The Ideology of Identities and the Identity of Ideologies -- Part I Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches -- 1 Is Byzantinism an Orientalism? Reflections on Byzantium’s Constructed Identities and Debated Ideologies -- 2 Ruling Elites and the Common People: Some Considerations on Their Diverging Identities and Ideologies -- 3 The Dēmosia, the Emperor and the Common Good: Byzantine Ideas on Taxation and Public Wealth, Eleventh–Twelfth Century -- 4 Beyond Religion: Homilies as Conveyors of Political Ideology in Middle Byzantium -- 5 Performing Byzantine Identity: Gender, Status and the Cult of the Virgin -- 6 ‘Middle-Class’ Ideology of Education and Language, and the ‘Bookish’ Identity of John Tzetzes -- 7 Byzantium from Below: Rural Identity in Byzantine Arabia and Palaestina, 500–630 -- 8 Community-Building and Collective Identity in Middle Byzantine Athens -- Part II Centre and Periphery -- 9 Provincial |