Throughout a millennium of history, the Byzantine Empire remained at the intersection of Eastern and Western civilizations. The location of its great capital city, Constantinople, on the frontier between Europe and Asia, ensured its enduring importance in cross-cultural exchange. People of different ethnicities, social strata, and faiths from the Eastern Mediterranean and beyond left their marks as travellers or settlers.
From late antiquity, when the entire Eastern Mediterranean was encompassed by the empire, until the fifteenth century, when Byzantium had been reduced to a city-state with its hinterland, Byzantine culture had a far-reaching impact on the region.
This volume considers Byzantium as a cosmopolitan space. Guided by the major research interests of Claudia Rapp, to whom it is dedicated, it is divided into three thematic blocks: “Sanctity and Society”, “Mobility and Identities”, and “Manuscripts and Material Culture”. The contributions reveal Byzantium as a realm of intercultural contact and exchange, where majority and minority cultures were in a complex dialogue and productive tension with each other, and where pilgrims, traders, soldiers, and scholars traversed political, religious, social, and intellectual borders.
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Frontmatter
ITable of Contents
VIIPreface
IXTabula Gratulatoria
XIIIPublications by Claudia Rapp
Figures
XXI- Part 1 Sanctity and Society
From Bishop to Martyr, from Constantinople to Rome
3Preaching Against Elitist Practices in Early Ninth-Century Constantinople
19Additional Identifications of the fontes of the Florilegium Marcianum (M) Edited by Prof. P. Odorico
33Eros in the “Macedonian Renaissance”
45Writing with the Church Fathers
65- Part 2 Mobility and Identities
The Portrait of Empress Aelia Eudoxia in Pseudo-Martyrius’ Oratio funebris and in an Armeno/Syriac Speech Attributed to John Chrysostom (Sermo in Eudoxiam imperatricem)
89Theodora as an Emblem of Cosmopolitan Byzantium
107Early Examples of Serbo-Bulgarian Political Kinship
123Von China nach Byzanz
135Diplomatic Missions of a Cosmopolitan Empire
147Un colloque sur la fraternité rituelle au monastère de la Péribleptos et la réponse d’un moine stoudite au hiéromoine Arsène
165Kaisarios Dapontes und sein Kanon auf viele außergewöhnliche Dinge
179- Part 3 Manuscripts and Material Culture
Visual Dialogues About the Theotokos, Across the Mediterranean
199The Figure of the Virgin Mary Across the Mediterranean and Beyond
211“This Great House of Such Magnitude”
233Sapientia quae a Deo stulta facta est
251Liturgical Multilingualism in and Around Jerusalem
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