Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204
Edited by Henry Maguire
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
Imperial Spaces
The Emperor in His Church: Imperial Ritual in the Church of St. Sophia
George P. Majeska
Gardens of the Palaces
A.R. Littlewood
Imperial Costumes and Cult Objects
Middle Byzantine Court Costume
Elisabeth Piltz
Helping Hands for the Empire: Imperial Ceremonies and the Cult of Relics at the Byzantine Court
Ioli Kalavrezou
Court Culture and Cult Icons in Middle Byzantine Constantinople
Annemarie Weyl Carr
Interchanges with Foreign Courts
Byzantine Court Culture from the Point of View of Norman Sicily: The Case of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo
William Tronzo
The Shared Culture of Objects
Oleg Grabar
Court Intellectuals and Rhetoric
Imperial Panegyric: Rhetoric and Reality
George T. Dennis
In Search of the Byzantine Courtier: Leo Choirosphaktes and Constantine Manasses
Paul Magdalino
Social Composition of the Byzantine Court
The Social World of the Byzantine Court
Alexander P. Kazhdan and Michael McCormick
Title and Income at the Byzantine Court
Nicolas Oikonomides
Art of the Byzantine Court
Daedalus and the Nightingale: Art and Technology in the Myth of the Byzantine Court
James Trilling
Présence et figures du souverain à Sainte-Sophie de Constantinople et à l'église de la Sainte-Croix d'Aghtamar
Catherine Jolivet-Levy
The Heavenly Court
Henry Maguire
Index
Henry Maguire is a former Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks and Professor of Art History at Johns Hopkins University