The subject of the emperor in the Byzantine world may seem likely
to be a well-studied topic but there is no book devoted to the
emperor in general covering the span of the Byzantine empire. Of
course there are studies on individual emperors, dynasties and
aspects of the imperial office/role, but there remains no
equivalent to Fergus Millar's The Emperor in the Roman World (from
which the proposed volume takes inspiration for its title and
scope). The oddity of a lack of a general study of the Byzantine
emperor is compounded by the fact that a series of books devoted to
Byzantine empresses was published in the late twentieth and early
twenty-first centuries. Thus it is appropriate to turn the
spotlight on the emperor. Themes covered by the contributions
include: questions of dynasty and imperial families; the imperial
court and the emperor's men; imperial duties and the emperor as
ruler; imperial literature (the emperor as subject and author); and
the material emperor, including imperial images and spaces. The
volume fills a need in the field and the market, and also brings
new and cutting-edge approaches to the study of the Byzantine
emperor. Although the volume cannot hope to be a comprehensive
treatment of the emperor in the Byzantine world it aims to cover a
broad chronological and thematic span and to play a vital part in
setting the agenda for future work. The subject of the Byzantine
emperor has also an obvious relevance for historians working on
rulership in other cultures and periods.
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