From Constantinople to the Frontier : the City and the Cities.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Note on Names and Terms -- Introduction -- Part 1 The City -- Chapter 1 Looking Eastwards: The Regina Orientis in Sidonius Apollinaris' Carmen 2 -- Chapter 2 L'identité romaine est-elle exclusive à Constantinople? Dichotomie entre Byzance et les Balkans à l'époque médiobyzantine (VIe-XIIe siècles) -- Chapter 3 City and Sovereignty in East Roman Thought, c.1000-1200: Ioannes Zonaras' Historical Vision of the Roman State -- Part 2 Connections &amp -- Coercion -- Chapter 4 "Furnish Whatever is Lacking to Their Avarice": The Payment Programme of Cyril of Alexandria -- Chapter 5 Constantinopolitan Connections: Liudprand of Cremona and Byzantium -- Chapter 6 Strengthening Justice through Friendship and Friendship through Justice: Michael Psellos and the Provincial Judges -- Part 3 The Civic &amp -- The Holy -- Chapter 7 Eusebius' Caesarea: The Writing of History and the Dynamics of Ecclesiastical Politics in Fourth-Century Palestine -- Chapter 8 Spectatorship in City and Church in Late Antiquity: Theoria Returns to the Festival -- Chapter 9 Constantinople and the Desert City: Imperial Patronage of the Judaean Desert Monasteries, 451-565 -- Chapter 10 Citadels of Prayer: The Christian Polis under Siege from the Summer of 502 to the Summer of 626 -- Part 4 The Cities -- Chapter 11 Province in Contrast to City: Irregularities and Peculiarities in the Coinage of Antioch (518-565) -- Chapter 12 Rome in the Seventh-Century Byzantine Empire: A Migrant's Network Perspective from the Circle of Maximos the Confessor -- Chapter 13 Rus' Dynastic Ideology in the Frescoes of the South Chapels in St. Sophia, Kiev -- Chapter 14 The Miracle Cycle between Constantinople, Thessalonike, and Mistra -- Part 5 Reception &amp -- Response.

Chapter 15 Constantinople and Alexandria between the Seventh and Eighth Centuries: The Representation of Byzantium in Christian Sources from Conquered Egypt -- Chapter 16 A Forgotten Translation of Pseudo-Methodius in Eighth-Century Constantinople: New Evidence for the Dispersal of the Greek Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius during the Dark Age Crisis -- Chapter 17 Comprendre les « Sarrasins » à Byzance dans la première moitié du IXe siècle -- Part 6 A Metropolitan Education: Texts &amp -- Contexts -- Chapter 18 Byzantine Manuscript Colophons and the Prosopography of Scribal Activity -- Chapter 19 Sayings Attributed to Emperors of Old and New Rome in Michael Psellos' Historia Syntomos -- Chapter 20 Ulysse, Tzetzès et l'éducation à Byzance -- Part 7 To the Frontier -- Chapter 21 Kastron, Rabaḍ and Arḍūn: The Case of Artanuji -- Chapter 22 From the Frontier Cities to the City, and Back? Reinterpreting Southern Italy in the De administrando imperio -- Chapter 23 Byzantine Art beyond the Borders of the Empire: A Case Study of the Church of St. Chrysogonusin Zara -- Chapter 24 Master of Kastamon, Emperor of Eternity: Ioannes Komnenos as Border-maker and Border-breaker in Theodoros Prodromos' poem 'On the advance to Kastamon' -- Chapter 25 'Ioannoupolis': Lopadion as 'City' and Military Headquarters under Emperor Ioannes II Komnenos -- Bibliography -- Index.

From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities provides twenty-five articles addressing the concept of centres and peripheries in the late antique and Byzantine worlds, focusing on urban aspects of this paradigm between the fourth and thirteenth centuries.

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