Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-ix

List of Abbreviations

pp x-xii

Notes on Contributors

pp xiii-xvi

Introduction - The Ideology of Identities and the Identity of Ideologies

pp 1-16

Part I - Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches

pp 17-18

1 - Is Byzantinism an Orientalism? Reflections on Byzantium’s Constructed Identities and Debated Ideologies

pp 19-47

2 - Ruling Elites and the Common People: Some Considerations on Their Diverging Identities and Ideologies

pp 48-61

3 - The Dēmosia, the Emperor and the Common Good: Byzantine Ideas on Taxation and Public Wealth, Eleventh–Twelfth Century

pp 62-99

4 - Beyond Religion: Homilies as Conveyors of Political Ideology in Middle Byzantium

pp 100-128

5 - Performing Byzantine Identity: Gender, Status and the Cult of the Virgin

pp 129-145

6 - ‘Middle-Class’ Ideology of Education and Language, and the ‘Bookish’ Identity of John Tzetzes

pp 146-163

7 - Byzantium from Below: Rural Identity in Byzantine Arabia and Palaestina, 500–630

pp 164-199

8 - Community-Building and Collective Identity in Middle Byzantine Athens

pp 200-228

Part II - Centre and Periphery

pp 229-230

9 - Provincial Rebellions as an Indicator of Byzantine ‘Identity’ (Tenth–Twelfth Centuries)

pp 231-249

10 - Provincial Separatism in the Late Twelfth Century: A Case of Power Relations or Disparate Identities?

pp 250-267

11 - Irrevocable Blood: Violence and Collective Identity Formation in the Late Twelfth Century

pp 268-286

12 - Adjustable Imperial Image-Projection and the Greco-Roman Repertoire: Their Reception among Outsiders and Longer-Stay Visitors

pp 287-318

13 - Two Paradoxes of Border Identity: Michael VIII Palaiologos and Constantine Doukas Nestongos in the Sultanate of Rūm

pp 319-345

14 - The Coriander Field: Ideologies and Identities in Post-Roman Ravenna

pp 346-366

15 - Cultural Policy and Political Ideology: How Imperial Was the Norman Realm of Sicily?

pp 367-386

16 - Changes in Identity and Ideology in the Byzantine World in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century: The Case of Serbia

pp 387-399

Index

pp 400-413