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Serving Byzantium's Emperors :

(Number (ISBN

3030045250

(Number (ISBN

9783030045258

Erroneous ISBN

3030045242

Erroneous ISBN

9783030045241

Title Proper

Serving Byzantium's Emperors :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the Courtly Life and Career of Michael Attaleiates.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cham :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan US,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2019.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (297 pages)

Series Title

New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture Ser.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-281) and index.

Text of Note

Intro; Preface and Acknowledgements Entwined; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; Byzantine Rulers from the Rise of the Macedonian Dynasty to the Komnenian Revolution; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Attaleiates' Time: Byzantium in the Eleventh Century; Themes and Questions in the Study of the Eleventh Century; Some Facts and a Few Events; 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; Seeking Knowledge; Walking Down the Street; Chapter 6 Attaleiates' Household

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Bibliographical EssaysGlossary; Bibliography; Index

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Chapter 7 The Courts of Justice, the Court, and the CourtiersThe Courts; The Fanfare That Was Not; Chapter 8 The Army in Society. The Society of the Army; The Army in Society; The Army Makes You Roman; 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; The Monastery and Its Links to the Aristocracy; The Monastery as a Center of Patronage; Chapter 12 Culture Wars and a Judge's Roman Piety; Chapter 13 A Short Conclusion

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"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 eleventh century, Byzantium faced a crisis as it navigated a shifting international environment of feudal polities, merchant republics, steppe migrations, and a rapidly transforming Islamic world. Attaleiates' life, from provincial birth to Constantinopolitan death, and career, as a member of an ancient empire's officialdom, raise questions of identity, family, education, governance, elite culture, Romanness, Hellenism, science and skepticism, as well as political ideology during this period"--

Title

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

International Standard Book Number

9783030045241

Attaleiatēs, Michaēl,active 11th century.

Attaleiatēs, Michaēl,active 11th century.

Historians-- Byzantine Empire, Biography.

Courts and courtiers.

Historians.

Byzantine Empire, Court and courtiers, Biography.

Byzantine Empire.

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7

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Edition

Class number

Krallis, Dimitris.

Date of Transaction

20200823080646.0

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