Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Abbreviations x
5. Notes on Contributors xiii
6. Introduction The Ideology of Identities and the Identity of Ideologies 1
7. Part I Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches
8. 1 Is Byzantinism an Orientalism? Reflections on Byzantium’s Constructed Identities and Debated Ideologies 19
9. 2 Ruling Elites and the Common People: Some Considerations on Their Diverging Identities and Ideologies 48
10. 3 The Dēmosia, the Emperor and the Common Good: Byzantine Ideas on Taxation and Public Wealth, Eleventh–Twelfth Century 62
11. 4 Beyond Religion: Homilies as Conveyors of Political Ideology in Middle Byzantium 100
12. 5 Performing Byzantine Identity: Gender, Status and the Cult of the Virgin 129
13. 6 ‘Middle-Class’ Ideology of Education and Language, and the ‘Bookish’ Identity of John Tzetzes 146
14. 7 Byzantium from Below: Rural Identity in Byzantine Arabia and Palaestina, 500–630 164
15. 8 Community-Building and Collective Identity in Middle Byzantine Athens 200
16. Part II Centre and Periphery
17. 9 Provincial Rebellions as an Indicator of Byzantine ‘Identity’ (Tenth–Twelfth Centuries) 231
18. 10 Provincial Separatism in the Late Twelfth Century: A Case of Power Relations or Disparate Identities? 250
19. 11 Irrevocable Blood: Violence and Collective Identity Formation in the Late Twelfth Century 268
20. 12 Adjustable Imperial Image-Projection and the Greco-Roman Repertoire: Their Reception among Outsiders and Longer-Stay Visitors 287
21. 13 Two Paradoxes of Border Identity: Michael VIII Palaiologos and Constantine Doukas Nestongos in the Sultanate of Rūm 319
22. 14 The Coriander Field: Ideologies and Identities in Post-Roman Ravenna 346
23. 15 Cultural Policy and Political Ideology: How Imperial was the Norman Realm of Sicily? 367
24. 16 Changes in Identity and Ideology in the Byzantine World in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century: The Case of Serbia 387
25. Index 400