List of Figures ix

List of Maps xiii

Notes on Contributors xv

Acknowledgments xix

Some Relevant Dates xxi

List of Byzantine Rulers xxv

List of Abbreviations xxix

1. Byzantium: a Very, Very Short Introduction 1
Liz James

2. Writing Histories of Byzantium: the Historiography of Byzantine History 9
F. K. Haarer

Part I Being Byzantine 23

3. Economics, Trade, and “Feudalism” 25
Peter Sarris

4. Byzantium ?­?n Constantinople 43
Paul Magdalino

5. Provinces and Capital 55
Catherine Holmes

6. Insiders and Outsiders 67
Dion C. Smythe

7. Young People in Byzantium 81
Cecily Hennessy

8. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 93
Myrto Hatzaki

9. The Memory Culture of Byzantium 108
Amy Papalexandrou

10. Emotions in Byzantium 123
Martin Hinterberger

11. Having Fun in Byzantium 135
Shaun Tougher

Part II God and the World 147

12. Byzantine Views of God and the Universe 149
Mary Cunningham

13. Giving Gifts to God: Aspects of Patronage in Byzantine Art 161
Vassiliki Dimitropoulou

14. Orthodoxy and Northern Peoples: Goods, Gods and Guidelines 171
Jonathan Shepard

15. Christology and Heresy 187
Andrew Louth

16. Beyond Byzantium: the Non-Chalcedonian Churches 199
Niall Finneran

Part III Reading Byzantine Texts 225

17. No Drama, No Poetry, No Fiction, No Readership, No Literature 227
Margaret Mullett

18. Rhetorical Questions 239
Mary Whitby

19. Text and Context in Byzantine Historiography 251
Roger Scott

20. Byzantine Narrative: the Form of Storytelling in Byzantium 263
Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis and Ingela Nilsson

21. Byzantine Book Culture 275
Judith Waring

Part IV Some Questions in Material Culture 289

22. Archaeology 291
James Crow

23. Makers and Users 301
Anthony Cutler

24. The Limits of Byzantine Art 313
Antony Eastmond

25. Icons and Iconomachy 323
Leslie Brubaker

26. The Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Renaissance 338
John Hanson

27. Late and Post-Byzantine Art under Venetian Rule: Frescoes versus Icons, and Crete in the Middle 351
Angeliki Lymberopoulou

Bibliography—Primary Sources 371

Bibliography 384

Index 443

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).