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" Serving Byzantium's Emperors : "
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BL
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860358
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Krallis, Dimitris.
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Serving Byzantium's Emperors : : the Courtly Life and Career of Michael Attaleiates.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham :: Palgrave Macmillan US,, 2019.
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| Series Statement
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New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture Ser.
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1 online resource (297 pages)
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3030045250
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: 9783030045258
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3030045242
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9783030045241
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-281) and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Preface and Acknowledgements Entwined; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; Byzantine Rulers from the Rise of the Macedonian Dynasty to the Komnenian Revolution; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Attaleiates' Time: Byzantium in the Eleventh Century; Themes and Questions in the Study of the Eleventh Century; Some Facts and a Few Events; 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; Seeking Knowledge; Walking Down the Street; Chapter 6 Attaleiates' Household
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Bibliographical EssaysGlossary; Bibliography; Index
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Chapter 7 The Courts of Justice, the Court, and the CourtiersThe Courts; The Fanfare That Was Not; Chapter 8 The Army in Society. The Society of the Army; The Army in Society; The Army Makes You Roman; 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; The Monastery and Its Links to the Aristocracy; The Monastery as a Center of Patronage; Chapter 12 Culture Wars and a Judge's Roman Piety; Chapter 13 A Short Conclusion
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"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"--
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Attaleiatēs, Michaēl,active 11th century.
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Attaleiatēs, Michaēl,active 11th century.
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Historians-- Byzantine Empire, Biography.
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Courts and courtiers.
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Historians.
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Byzantine Empire, Court and courtiers, Biography.
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Byzantine Empire.
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| Dewey Classification
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949.5/02092B
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D111-D203HN8-HN19CB3
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