Court ceremonies and rituals of power in Byzantium and the medieval Mediterranean : comparative perspectives /

Comparative approaches to political rituals and ceremonies in Byzantium and other court cultures of the Mediterranean basin form the subject of this collective volume, which examines related topics from the viewpoint of transformation, succession, appropriation, and representation in art and literat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Beihammer, Alexander Daniel, Constantinou, Stavroula, Parani, Maria G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2013.
Colección:Medieval Mediterranean.
Temas:
Rites and ceremonies > Byzantine Empire > History.
Political customs and rites > Byzantine Empire > History.
Power (Social sciences) > Byzantine Empire > History.
Social change > Byzantine Empire > History.
Comparative civilization.
Rites et cérémonies > Empire byzantin > Histoire.
Mœurs politiques > Empire byzantin > Histoire.
Civilisation comparée.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
Civilization
Comparative civilization
Courts and courtiers
Manners and customs
Political customs and rites
Politics and government
Power (Social sciences)
Rites and ceremonies
Social change
Byzantine Empire > Court and courtiers > History.
Byzantine Empire > Social life and customs.
Byzantine Empire > Politics and government.
Byzantine Empire > Civilization.
Mediterranean Region > Civilization.
Empire byzantin > Politique et gouvernement.
Empire byzantin > Civilisation.
Méditerranée, Région de la > Civilisation.
Byzantine Empire
Mediterranean Region
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART ONE. RITUALS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE ROMAN WORLD
  • Imperial birthday rituals in late antiquity / Maria Kantirea
  • Phthonos : a pagan relic in Byzantine imperial acclamations? / Martin Hinterberger
  • Ritualized encounters : late Roman diplomacy and the Barbarians, fifth-sixth century / Walter Pohl
  • The architecture of allegiance in early Islamic late antiquity : the accession of Mu?awiya in Jerusalem, ca. 661 CE / Andrew Marsham
  • PART TWO. SUCCESSION PROCEDURES AND THEIR RITUAL ARTICULATIONS
  • Describing rituals of succession and the legitimation of kingship in the West, ca. 1000-ca. 1150 / Bjorn Weiler
  • Ritual and reality : the Bay?a process in eleventh- and twelfth-century Islamic courts / Eric J. Hanne
  • Comnenian imperial succession and the ritual world of Niketas Choniates' Chronike diegesis / Alexander D. Beihammer
  • Coronation speeches in the Palaiologan period / Antonia Giannouli
  • PART THREE. INVENTION, APPROPRIATION AND TRANSFORMATION BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
  • Ritual, politics, and the city in Mamluk Cairo : the Bayna al-Qas?rayn as a Mamluk 'lieu de memoire, ' 1250-1382 / Jo Van Steenbergen
  • Court ceremonies and rituals of power in the Latin Empire of Constantinople / Stefan Burkhardt
  • Featuring the king : rituals of coronation and burial in the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia / Ioanna Rapti
  • Adventus, Arrivistes and rites of rulership in Byzantium and France in the tenth and eleventh century / Jonathan Shepard
  • PART FOUR. RITUAL PERFORMANCES AND THEIR REFLECTIONS IN ART AND LITERATURE
  • Violence in the palace : rituals of imperial punishment in Prokopios's Secret history / Stavroula Constantinoui
  • The "Court of Amorous Dominion" and the "Gate of Love" : rituals of empire in a Byzantine romance of the thirteenth century / Panagiotis A. Agapitos
  • Parodies of imperial ceremonial and their reflections in Byzantine art / Henry Maguire
  • Look like an angel : the attire of eunuchs and its significance within the context of Middle Byzantine court ceremonial / Maria Parani
  • Designing receptions in the palace (De Cerimoniis 2.15) / Christine Angelidi
  • Tented ceremony : ephemeral performances under the Komnenoi / Margaret Mullett.

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