A Companion to Byzantium / Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World (PDF)

List of Figures. List of Maps. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Some Relevant Dates. List of Byzantine Rulers. List of Abbreviations. 1. Byzantium: a Very, Very Short Introduction (Liz James). 2. Writing Histories of Byzantium: the Historiography of Byzantine History (F. K. Haarer). Part I Being Byzantine. 3. Economics, Trade, and "Feudalism" (Peter Sarris). 4. Byzantium = Constantinople (Paul Magdalino). 5. Provinces and Capital (Catherine Holmes). 6. Insiders and Outsiders (Dion C. Smythe). 7. Young People in Byzantium (Cecily Hennessy). 8. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Myrto Hatzaki). 9. The Memory Culture of Byzantium (Amy Papalexandrou). 10. Emotions in Byzantium (Martin Hinterberger). 11. Having Fun in Byzantium (Shaun Tougher). Part II God and the World. 12. Byzantine Views of God and the Universe (Mary Cunningham). 13. Giving Gifts to God: Aspects of Patronage in Byzantine Art (Vassiliki Dimitropoulou). 14. Orthodoxy and Northern Peoples: Goods, Gods and Guidelines (Jonathan Shepard). 15. Christology and Heresy (Andrew Louth). 16. Beyond Byzantium: the Non-Chalcedonian Churches (Niall Finneran). Part III Reading Byzantine Texts. 17. No Drama, No Poetry, No Fiction, No Readership, No Literature (Margaret Mullett). 18. Rhetorical Questions (Mary Whitby). 19. Text and Context in Byzantine Historiography (Roger Scott). 20. Byzantine Narrative: the Form of Storytelling in Byzantium (Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis and Ingela Nilsson). 21. Byzantine Book Culture (Judith Waring). Part IV Some Questions in Material Culture. 22. Archaeology (James Crow). 23. Makers and Users (Anthony Cutler). 24. The Limits of Byzantine Art (Antony Eastmond). 25. Icons and Iconomachy (Leslie Brubaker). 26. The Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Renaissance (John Hanson). 27. Late and Post-Byzantine Art under Venetian Rule: Frescoes versus Icons, and Crete in the Middle (Angeliki Lymberopoulou). Bibliography--Primary Sources. Bibliography. Index.

Liz James is Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex. Her books include Light and Colour in Byzantine Art (1996) and Empresses and Power in Early Byzantium (2001).

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