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Byzantium in the Eleventh Century - Being in Between (Paperback)
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Byzantium in the Eleventh Century - Being in Between (Paperback)
Series: Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
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The eleventh century in Byzantium is all about being in between,
whether this is between Basil II and Alexios Komnenos, between the
forces of the Normans, the Pechenegs and the Turks, or between
different social groupings, cultural identities and religious
persuasions. It is a period of fundamental changes and
transformations, both internal and external, but also a period rife
with cliches and dominated by the towering presence of Michael
Psellos whose usually self-contradictory accounts continue to loom
large in the field of Byzantine studies. The essays collected here,
which were delivered at the 45th Spring Symposium of Byzantine
Studies, explore new avenues of research and offer new perspectives
on this transitional period. The book is divided into four thematic
clusters: 'The age of Psellos' studies this crucial figure and
seeks to situate him in his time; 'Social structures' is concerned
with the ways in which the deep structures of Byzantine society and
economy responded to change; 'State and Church' offers a set of
studies of various political developments in eleventh-century
Byzantium; and 'The age of spirituality' offers the voices of those
for whom Psellos had little time and little use: monks, religious
thinkers and pious laymen.
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