Authority in Byzantium

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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 emperora (TM)s authority and kharaktAr on the marketplace, CA(c)cile 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, GA nter 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 a And many, many morea (TM): a 16th-century description of private libraries in Constantinople, and the authority of books, Marc D. Lauxtermann. Part VII Exhibiting Authority in Provincial Societies: Organic local government and village authority, Leonora Neville. Part VIII Exhibiting Authority in Museums: Exhibiting authority: Byzantium 330-1453, Maria Vassilaki. Part IX Authority in Byzantine Studies: George Ostrogorsky, St Petersburg, 19 January 1902-Belgrade, 24 October, 1976, Ljubomir Maksimovic Hans-Georg Beck, Vera von Falkenhausen Robert Browning, Elizabeth Jeffreys Index.