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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Krallis, Dimitris (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Attaleiates' Time: Byzantium in the Eleventh Century
• Chapter 3 Paper, Parchment and Ink: The Sources for Attaleiates' Biography
• Chapter 4 Attaleia: The Busy, Bustling Fringe.-Chapter 5 To the Capital Seeking Wisdom
• Chapter 6 Attaleiates' Household
• Chapter 7 The Courts of Justice, The Court and the Courtiers
• Chapter 8 The Army in Society - The Society of the Army
• Chapter 9 The Judge on Horseback - The Empire at War
• Chapter 10 Byzantine 'Republicanism': Attaleiates' Politics of Accommodation and Self-Interest
• Chapter 11 Piety, Tax-Heavens and the Future of the Family
• Chapter 12 Culture Wars and a Judge's Roman Piety
• Chapter 13 A Short Conclusion.