Serving Byzantium's Emperors The Courtly Life and Career of Michael Attaleiates /

• Main Author: Krallis, Dimitris (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• Subjects: Europe-History-476-1492.; Social history.; Civilization-History.; Military history.; History of Medieval Europe.; Social History.; Cultural History.; History of Military.

This book is a microhistory of eleventh-century Byzantium, built around the biography of the state official Michael Attaleiates. Dimitris Krallis presents Byzantium as a cohesive, ever-evolving, dynamic, Roman political community, built on traditions of Roman governance and Hellenic culture. In the...