Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: The ideology of identities and the identity of ideologies
  • Part I. Top-down and bottom-up approaches. Is Byzantinism an orientalism? Reflections on Byzantium's constructed identities and debated ideologies
  • Ruling elites and the common people : some considerations on their diverging identities and ideologies
  • The Dēmosia, the Emperor and the common good : Byzantine ideas on taxation and public wealth, eleventh-twelfth century
  • Beyond religion : homilies as conveyors of political ideology in middle Byzantium
  • Performing Byzantine identity : gender, status and the cult of the Virgin
  • 'Middle-class' ideology of education and language, and the 'bookish' identity of John Tzetzes
  • Byzantium from below : rural identity in Byzantine Arabia and Palaestina, 500-630
  • Community-building and collective identity in middle Byzantine Athens
  • Part II. Centre and periphery. Provincial rebellions as an indicator of Byzantine 'identity' (tenth-twelfth centuries)
  • Provincial separatism in the late twelfth century : a case of power relations or disparate identities?
  • Irrevocable blood : violence and collective identity formation in the late twelfth century
  • Adjustable imperial image-projection and the Greco-Roman repertoire : their reception among outsiders and longer-stay visitors
  • Two paradoxes of border identity : Michael VIII Palaiologos and Constantine Doukas Nestongos in the Sultanate of Rūm
  • The coriander field : ideologies and identities in post-Roman Ravenna
  • Cultural policy and political ideology : how imperial was the Norman realm of Sicily?
  • Changes in identity and ideology in the Byzantine world in the second half of the twelfth century : the case of Serbia
  • Index