Change in Byzantine culture in the eleventh and twelfth centuries

Author(s)

• Kazhdan, A. P. (Aleksandr Petrovich)
• Wharton, Annabel Jane

Bibliographic Information

Change in Byzantine culture in the eleventh and twelfth centuries

A.P. Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein

（The transformation of the classical heritage, 7）

University of California Press, c1985

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Byzantium, that dark sphere on the periphery of medieval Europe, is commonly regarded as the immutable residue of Rome's decline. In this highly original and provocative work, Alexander Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein revise this traditional image by documenting the dynamic social changes that occurred during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction I. BACKGROUND: FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES Restructuring the Empire: The Seventh Century Reconsolidation: The Ninth and Tenth Centuries II. DECENTRALIZATION AND "FEUDALIZATION" OF THE BYZANTINE STATE Decentralization Urban Evolution in the Provinces: Archaeological and Literary Evidence Urban Evolution in the Provinces: Arts and Crafts Urban Economy and Institutions "Feudalization" of the Byzantine Social Structure The Nature of the Byzantine Estate The Nature of the Byzantine Nobility Changes in the Social Character of the Byzantine Aristocracy Changes in the Bureaucracy III. POPULAR AND ARISTOCRATIC CULTURAL TRENDS Popular Tendencies in Byzantine Society Changes in the Daily Regime: Dress, Diet, and Diversion Popular Elements in Literature Popular Features in Religious Life The "Aristocratization" of Culture The Byzantine Family Search for Legitimacy: The Importance of Lineage The Creation of an Aristocratic Ideal Image of the Ideal Ruler Epitome of Aristocracy: Digenis Akritas IV. THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE The Educational System Academic Institutions Academic Politics Intellectuals in Society The Assimilation of the Classical Tradition Byzantium and the Authors of Antiquity The Byzantine Reading of Classical Literature Art and Antiquity Law Byzantine Science Intimations of Rationalism: Theology and Ideology Rationalism and the Imperial Ideal v. BYZANTIUM AND ALIEN CULTURES Traditional Attitudes Toward "Barbarians" Contact with Alien Cultures: The Frontier Zone Contact with Alien Cultures: The Center Breakdown of Some of the Traditional Barriers Effects of Foreign Influence Unbreachable Barriers VI. MAN IN LITERATURE AND ART Artist, Audience, and Object From the Ideal to the Ordinary Abstraction to Naturalism Impersonal to Personal Conclusion Appendix: Texts Index

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Details

• NCID: BA03422249
• ISBN:
  • 0520051297
  • 0520069625
• LCCN: 84000188
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Berkeley
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 287 p., [32] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DF601
  • DC19 : 949.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Byzantine Empire -- Civilization -- 527-1081
  • LCSH : Byzantine Empire -- Civilization -- 1081-1453
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00434489