The Byzantine world / edited by Paul Stephenson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"First published in 2010"--T.p. verso.

Part I : The Byzantines in their world -- The Byzantine political process at crisis point / Michael Angold -- The rise of the middle Byzantine aristocracy and the decline of the imperial state / Paul Stephenson -- Money, coins and the economy / Cécile Morrisson -- The army and military logistics / John Haldon -- The study of women and children : methodological challenges and new directions / Anthony Kaldellis -- Strong women and their husbands in Byzantine historiography / Lenora Neville -- Cherches l'homme! Byzantine men : a eunuch perspective / Shaun Tougher -- On slaves and slavery / Günter Prinzing -- Monotheists, dualists and pagans / Christopher Livanos -- The virtues and faults of the Latin Christians / Tia Kolbaba.

Part II : The written world -- Political literacy / Catherine Holmes -- Byzantine military manuals : prescriptions, practice and pedagogy / Denis F. Sullivan -- De cerimoniis and the Great Palace / J.M. Featherstone -- Rhetoric and performance / Emmanuuel C. Bourbouhakis -- Letter-writing / Stratis Papaioannou -- Trends and developments in the Byzantine poetic tradition / Christopher Livanos -- The corpus of Byzantine historiography : an interpretive essay / Anthony Kaldellis -- Christians, Jews and Muslims in Byzantine Italy : medieval conflicts in local perspective / Youval Rotman -- The miracles of Gregory Palamas by Philotheos Kokkinos / Alice-Mary Talbot -- Writing for the heart : the spiritual literature of Byzantium / Joseph Munitiz .

Part III : Heaven on earth : Byzantine art and architecture -- What is a Byzantine icon? Constantinople versus Sinai / Bissera V. Pentcheva -- Defining liturgical space / Vasileios Marinis -- Celestial hierarchies and earthly hierarchies in the art of the Byzantine Church / Warren T. Woodfin -- Unofficial art and the resistance to Orthodoxy / Henry Maguire -- Constantinople and the construction of a medieval urban identity / Robert Ousterhout -- The practice, perception and experience of Byzantine fortification / Nikolas Bakirtzis -- Imperial outliers : building and decorative works in the borderlands and beyond / Jonathan Shepard -- The medieval progeny of he Holy Apostles : trails of architectural imitation across the Mediterranean / Tassos Papacostas -- Sacred space from Constantinople to Venice / Thomas E.A. Dale.

Part IV : The world of Byzantine studies -- The history of editing Byzantine historiographical texts / Diether roderich Reinsch -- Byzantium in nineteenth-century Greek historiography / Despina Christodoulou -- Pioneers of popular Byzantine history : Freeman, Gregorovius, Schlumberger / Paul Stephenson -- A case study in the emergence of Byzantine studies : Serbia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Srđan Privatrić -- Byzantium and historical sociology / Johann P. Arnason -- Byzantium's European future / Paul Stephenson.