Serving Byzantium's emperors : the courtly life and career of Michael Attaleiates /

Serving Byzantium's emperors : the courtly life and career of Michael Attaleiates /

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Author / Creator:	Krallis, Dimitris, author.
Imprint:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019] ©2019
Description:	xxi, 288 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New approaches to Byzantine history and culture New approaches to Byzantine history and culture.
Subject:	Attaleiatēs, Michaēl, -- active 11th century. Attaleiatēs, Michaēl, -- active 11th century. Historians -- Byzantine Empire -- Biography. Historians. Byzantine Empire -- Court and courtiers -- Biography. Byzantine Empire. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11800242

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Varying Form of Title:	Courtly life and career of Michael Attaleiates
ISBN:	9783030045241 3030045242 9783030045258
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-281) and index.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	ebook version : 9783030045258

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