Table of Contents

Contents: Preface, Paul Magdalino. Language and Literacy: L' 'unilinguisme' officiel de Constantinople byzantine (VIIe-XIIe s.); Matzoukina - Matzoukatos in Ptochoprodromos; Mount Athos: levels of literacy; Literacy in 13th-century Byzantium: an example from western Asia Minor; Byzance: à propos d'alphabétisation; E engrammatosyne ton Kretikon gyro sto 1200. Art and Politics: Some remarks on the apse mosaic of St Sophia; E stole tou eparkhou ki o Skylitzes tes Madrites; La couronne dite de Constantin Monomaque; E autokrateira Agia Sophia; The significance of some imperial monumental portraits of the 10th and 11th centuries; Pictorial propaganda in 12th-century Constantinople; The holy icon as an asset; An imperial Byzantine casket and its fate at a humanist's hands. Byzantium After 1204: La rinascita delle istituzioni bizantine dopo il 1204; A propos des armées des premiers Paléologues et des compagnies de soldats; Byzantium between East and West (13th-15th centuries); The Byzantine overlord of Genoese possessions in Romania; The Turks in Europe (1305-13) and the Serbs in Asia Minor (1313); From soldiers of fortune to gazi warriors: the Tzympe affair; Pour une typologie des villes 'séparées' sous les Paléologues; Andronic II Paléologue et la ville de Kroia; Byzantine diplomacy, A.D. 1204-1453: means and ends. Athos and the Church: To meridio ton monasterion sten agora tes tourkokratoumenes Thessalonikes (1400); Patronage in Palaiologan Mt Athos; Le temps des Faux; Agrotiko perisseuma kai o rolos tou kratous gyro sto 1300; Réflexions sur le monocondyle épiscopal du 16e s.. Index.

About the Author

Nicolas Oikonomides was formerly Professor in the Department of History at the University of Athens, Greece. Elizabeth Zachariadou is Professor at the University of Crete, Greece.