
Margins and Metropolis
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Herrin contrasts life in the capital with provincial life, tracing the adaptation of a largely rural population to rule by Constantinople from the early medieval period onward. The letters of Michael Choniates, archbishop of Athens from 1182 to 1205, offer a detailed account of how this highly educated cleric coped with life in an imperial backwater, and demonstrate a synthesis of ancient Greek culture and medieval Christianity that was characteristic of the Byzantine elite.
This collection of essays spans the entirety of Herrin's influential career and draws together a significant body of scholarship on problems of empire. It features a general introduction, two previously unpublished essays, and a concise introduction to each essay that describes how it came to be written and how it fits into her broader analysis of the unusual brilliance and longevity of Byzantium.
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Introduction xiii
MARGINS
1.A Christian Millennium: Greece in Byzantium--How the Empire Worked at Its Edge 3
2.Aspects of the Process of Hellenization in the Early Middle Ages 33
3.Realities of Provincial Government: Hellas and Peloponnesos, 1180-1204 58
4.The Ecclesiastical Organization of Central Greece at the Time of Michael Choniates: New Evidence from the Codex Atheniensis 1371 103
5.The Collapse of the Byzantine Empire in the Twelfth Century: A Study of a Medieval Economy 111
6.Byzantine Kythera 130
METROPOLIS
7.Byzantium: The Palace and the City 159
8.Philippikos and the Greens 179
9.Philippikos "the Gentle" 192
10.The Historical Context of Iconoclast Reform 206
11.Constantinople, Rome, and the Franks in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries 220
12.The Pentarchy: Theory and Reality in the Ninth Century 239
13.From Bread and Circuses to Soup and Salvation: The Origins of Byzantine Charity 267
14.Ideals of Charity, Realities of Welfare: The Philanthropic Activity of the Byzantine Church 299
15.Mathematical Mysteries in Byzantium: The Transmission of Fermat's Last Theorem 312
16.Book Burning as Purification in Early Byzantium 335
Index 357
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