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Contents: Introduction Part 1 The Buoyancy of Byzantium Before 1204: Its Manifest Destiny and Many Frontiers: God and the 'family of princes' presided over by the Byzantine emperor, AndrA(c) Grabar The strength of empire and capital as seen through Byzantine eyes, Paul J. Alexander The history of the future and its uses: prophecy, policy and propaganda (with postscript), Paul Magdalino Emperors and expansionism: from Rome to Middle Byzantium, Jonathan Shepard Isaac II, Saladin and Venice, Paul Magdalino Byzantine trade with Egypt from the mid-10th century to the 4th Crusade, David Jacoby Prayer, illumination and good times: the export of Byzantine wine and oil to the north of Russia in pre-Mongol times, Thomas S. Noonan and Roman K. Kovalev 'Wine and oil for all the Rus!' the importation of Byzantine wine and olive oil to Kievan Rus, Thomas S. Noonan and Roman K. Kovalev The many frontiers of the pre-Mongol Rus, David B. Miller Mission impossible: ups and downs in Byzantine missionary activity from the 11th to the 15th century, Sergey A. Ivanov The '2nd Bulgarian Empire': its origin and history to 1204, Robert L. Wolff. Part II After the Fall: Shifting Centres of the Orthodox World: Fragmentation (1204a 1453) (with bibliography), Stephen W. Reinert Some observations on the administrative terminology of the 2nd Bulgarian Empire (13tha 14th centuries), Ivan Biliarsky Tsar Stephen DuA!an and Mount Athos, George C. Soulis Between kingdom and empire: DuA!an's state 1346a 1355 reconsidered, Sima M. Cirkovic Divine wisdom as part of Byzantine imperial ideology: research into the artistic interpretations of the theme in medieval Serbia. Narthex programme of Lesnovo and Sopocani, Zaga Gavrilovic Khan or basileus: an aspect of Russian medieval political theory, Michael Cherniavsky 'Know thy enemy': medieval Russian familiarity with the Mongols of the Golden Horde, Charles J. Halperin Under pressure from the pagans? a the Mongols and the Russian Church, Sergei Hackel 'Cultural ties: Byzantium, the Southern Slavs and Russia, John Meyendorff Late Byzantine culture and the Slavs: a study in acculturation, Dimitri Obolensky The holy man and Christianization from the apocryphal apostles to St Stephen of Perm, Richard M. Price. Index.
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