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BASILEIA:
ESSAYS ON IMPERIUM AND CULTURE IN HONOUR OF E.M. AND M.J. JEFFREYS

edited by Geoffrey Nathan and Lynda Garland

Byzantina Australiensia vol. 17 (Brisbane 2011)

ISBN: 9781876503307; ISSN: 0725-3079

18 essays, 266 pages including 50 illustrations

Australian and New Zealand price: AU$44 including postage
All other countries: AU$57 including postage

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Basileia brings together 18 essays on the topic of Imperium and Culture in the Byzantine Empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume is dedicated to Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys, who number among the founding members of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies and whose contribution to the field is internationally recognised. Each of the honorands has contributed a chapter; other contributors include Roger Scott, Pauline Allen, Brian Croke, Ann Mullett, Geoffrey Nathan, Lynda Garland, Bronwen Neil, Andrew Gillett, Amelia Brown, Andrew Stone, Nigel Westbrook and Erika Gielen. This collection will have a broad appeal to those interested in the complex relationship between imperial rule and culture in Byzantium. The volume includes 50 colour and black-and-white images.
 

 

Ann Moffatt	Michael and Elizabeth Jeffreys
Ann Moffatt	Publications of Michael John Jeffreys and Elizabeth Mary Jeffreys
Elizabeth Jeffreys	Purple Prose? The Emperor and Literature
Michael Jeffreys	Versified Press-releases on the Role of the Komnenian Emperor: The Public Poems of Manganeios Prodromos
Amelia R. Brown	Archbishops, Generals and Governors between East and West in Early Byzantine Greece
Pauline Allen	Brushes with the Imperium: Letters of Synesius of Cyrene and Augustine of Hippo on Crisis
Bronwen Neil	Imperial Benefactions to the Fifth-century Roman Church
Andrew Gillett	Ethnography and Imperium in the Sixth Century: Frankish and Byzantine Rhetoric in the Epistolae Austrasicae
Roger Scott	Interpreting the Late Fifth and Early Sixth Centuries from Byzantine Chronicle Trivia
Geoffrey Nathan	The Vienna Disocorides' dedicatio to Anicia Juliana: A Usurpation of Imperial Patronage?
Brian Croke	Justinian the "Sleepless Emperor"
Sarah Gador-Whyte	Procopius and Justinian's Propaganda
Ross Burns	Justinian's Fortifications East of Antioch
Lynda Garland	Public Lavatories, Mosquito Nets and Agathias' Cat: The Sixth-century Epigram in its Justinian Context
Penelope Nash	Demonstrations of Imperium: Byzantine Influences in the Late Eighth and Tenth Centuries in the West
Andrew Stone	Imperial Types in Byzantine Panegyric
Penelope Buckley	Alexios Komnenos as the Last Constantine
Erika Geilen	Joseph the Philosopher, an Outstanding Outsider: Philosophy and Rhetoric at the Court of Andronicus II
Robert Mihajlovski	The Medieval Town of Prilep
Nigel Westbrook	The Freshfield Folio view of the Hippodrome in Istanbul and the Church of St John Diippion

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