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The Byzantine court: source of power and culture ; papers from the Second International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium, Istanbul 21 - 23 June 2010
2013, Koç University Press
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6055250179 9786055250171
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Table of Contents
Opening speech -- Ayla Ödekan -- 1.
Byzantine palace architecture.
The Byzantine court as a physical space -- Albrecht Berger ;
Excavations at the Byzantine Great Palace (Palatium Magnum) in the area of the Old Sultanahmet Jail -- Asuman Denker ;
Water and the Great Palace in Constantinople -- James Crow ;
The rotunda at the Myrelaion in Constantinople: pilaster capitals, mosaics, and brick stamps -- Philipp Niewohner ;
The architecture of aristocratic palaces in Constantinople in written sources -- Peter Schreiner ;
Constantinople, Konya, conical kiosks, cultural confluence -- Scott Redford ;
The New Palace of Mehmed Fatih and its Byzantine legacy -- Simon Malmberg -- 2.
The Byzantine court as the center of imperial power.
Power building and power space in Byzantine Constantinople: the ethics and dynamics of construction and conservation -- Paul Magdalino ;
Palatial gardens as symbols of imperial power -- Antony R. Littlewood ;
The emperor as cosmopolitan ruler: imaging middle Byzantine imperial power -- Alicia Walker ;
The Great Palace and the iconoclast emperors -- Marie-France Auzépy ;
Female space at the Byzantine court -- Judith Herrin ;
Daily life at the Blachernai Palace: the servants of the imperial bedchamber (1261-1354) -- Frouke Schrijver ;
Emblems of power in Palaiologan Constantinople -- Robert G. Ousterhout ;
Between the imperial court and the western maritime powers: the impact of naturalizations on the economy of late Byzantine Constantinople -- David Jacoby ;
Circulation of people between the Byzantine and Ottoman courts -- Nevra Necipoğlu -- 3.
Ceremonies at the court and in the city.
Art, ceremony, and spiritual authority at the Byzantine court -- Henry Maguire ;
Processions and public spaces in early and middle Byzantine Constantinople -- Leslie Brubaker ;
From the Hippodrome to the reception halls of the Great Palace: acclamations and dances in the service of imperial ideology -- Brigitte Pitarakis ;
De cerimoniis: the revival of antiquity in the Great Palace and the 'Macedonian renaissance' -- J. Michael Featherstone ;
Dressed to kill: middle Byzantine military ceremonial attire -- Maria G. Parani ;
Diplomacy as performance: power politics and resistance between the Byzantine and the Early Medieval Islamic courts -- Koray Durak ;
Inside and outside the palace: ceremonies in the Constantinople of the Palaiologo -- Ruth Macrides -- 4.
Court culture and visual arts.
Did Byzantium have a court literature? -- Margaret Mullett ;
History writing as political propaganda in late Byzantium -- Apostolos Karpozilos ;
The school in Byzantium: structure and problems -- Athanasios Markopoulos ;
Translations from Greek into Arabic at the court of Mehmed the Conqueror -- Maria Mavroudi ;
Antiquarianism and revivalism in late Byzantine court culture and visual arts -- Ivana Jevtic ;
Cultural aspects of power in the Byzantine Empire: the court as patron of metal art objects -- Meryem Acara Eser ;
Byzantine lead seals representing the Kanikleios of the imperial palace -- Vera Bulgurlu
Closing speech -- Ayla Ödekan.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references.

