Serving Byzantium's emperors : the courtly life and career of Michael Attaleiates
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Serving Byzantium's emperors : the courtly life and career of Michael Attaleiates
（New approaches to Byzantine history and culture / series editors Floria Curta, Leonora Neville, Shaun Taugher）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2019
- : hbk
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University of Tsukuba Library, Library on Library and Information Science
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Description
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. The life and work of Attaleiates is used as a prism through which to examine important questions about a long-lived medieval polity that is usually studied as exotic and distinct from both the European and the Near Eastern historical experience.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Attaleiates' Time: Byzantium in the Eleventh Century
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
Chapter 6 Attaleiates' Household
Chapter 7 The Courts of Justice, The Court and the Courtiers
Chapter 8 The Army in Society - The Society of the Army
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
Chapter 12 Culture Wars and a Judge's Roman Piety
Chapter 13 A Short Conclusion
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