Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth CenturiesByzantium, 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. |
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A. P. Kazhdan Alexios ancient Andronikos Anna Comnena Antioch antiquity Arabs aristocratic Asia Minor Athens Attaleiates Basil Basil II became Bulgarian Byzan Byzantine Empire Byzantine Studies byzantinischen Byzantium Chon Christ Chronicle church classical Comneni Comnenian Comnenus Constantine Constantine IX Constantinople Constantinopolitan contemporary contrast culture Cyprus Darrouzès eleventh and twelfth eleventh century elite emperor études Eust Eustathios Eustathios of Thessaloniki evidence Greek Holy icons ideal imperial intellectual JÖB John Kamateros Kastoria Kekaumenos land late Latin literary literature Manuel I's Mauropous medieval Mesarites Michael Choniates Michael Psellos military monastery monastic monks Munich Nicholas Nikephoros Niketas Choniates ninth nobility noble Paris patriarch peasants Pechenegs political Prodromos provincial Psellos Psellos's Roman saints Sathas secular Skylitzes social strategos Symeon tenth century Theodore Thessaloniki Timarion tion tium traditional tury twelfth century typikon Tzetzes urban vita Western wrote Zonaras