Michael Attaleiates and the politics of imperial decline in eleventh-century Byzantium /
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| Author / Creator: | Krallis, Dimitris. |
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| Imprint: | Tempe, Ariz. : ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), 2012. |
| Description: | xlii, 293 pages. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medieval and renaissance texts and studies ; volume 422 Medieval confluences series ; volume 2 Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 422. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series). Medieval confluences series ; v. 2. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8778745 |
Table of Contents:
- Abstract
- Abbreviations
- Index of Images and Maps
- A Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Michael Attaleiates: A Biography
- 1.1. Early Life and Education
- 1.2. Marriages and Investments
- 1.3. Investing in Rhaidestos and Constantinople
- 1.4. Duty to Personal Associates, Peers, and Tenants
- 1.5. Conflicting Loyalties
- Chapter 2. Friends across the Ages
- 2.1. Attaleiates' Library
- 2.2. Attaleiates and Polybios
- Chapter 3. Attaleiates and Psellos
- 3.1. Social and Professional Contacts
- 3.2. Reading Attaleiates against Psellos
- 3.2.1. The 'Debate' over Romanos
- 3.2.2. Psellos and Attaleiates between Rhetoric and History: The Case of Romanos
- 3.2.3. Expanding the Common Ground
- 3.2.3.1. Alexios Stoudites and Michael Keroularios
- 3.2.3.2. The synetoi, Causation, and the Ability to Plan the Future
- Chapter 4. Men of Action: Models of Political Agency in the History
- 4.1. The Domestic Policies of Isaakios Komnenos
- 4.2. The Military Effort of Romanos IV Diogenes
- 4.3. When Heroes Fail, Experts Arise
- 4.4. Between History and Encomium
- 4.5. Rouselios Basileus Romaion?
- 4.6. Menander's Disappointment
- Chapter 5. God's Will, Piety, Omens, and the 'Other' Causes of History
- 5.1. Causal Confusion: Charioteers and Earthquake Specialists
- 5.2. God, Satan, Either, or Neither
- 5.3. Barbarian Mirrors for Byzantine Follies
- 5.4. Old Virtue and New Vice: Ancient and Modern Romans
- 5.5. What's in an Oath?
- 5.6. Omens, Portents, and the Synetoi
- Chapter 6. Seeking an Audience with the Komnenoi
- Conclusions
- Appendix 1. Attaleiates' Property in Constantinople
- Appendix 2. On Attaleiates' Friend Basileios Maleses
- List of Byzantine Rulers
- Maps
- Bibliography
- Primary Material
- Secondary Works
- Indices
- Index of People
- Index of Places
- Index of Works, Ancient and Byzantine
- Index of Terms
- Index of Families, Ethnic Groups, Nations, and Associations
- Index of Ancient and Byzantine Authors
- Index of Modern Scholars