From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities

Nicholas S.M. Matheou is a D.Phil. candidate in Oriental Studies at Pembroke College, Oxford, with the thesis title Aristakes of Lastivert's History in Context: Armenia and New Rome in the Era of the Seljuq Invasions. He is co-convener of The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities research network on the long history of identity, ethnicity and nationhood.Theofili Kampianaki is a D.Phil. candidate at Wolfson College, Oxford. Her doctoral thesis is entitled John Zonaras’ Epitome of Histories: A Compendium of Jewish-Roman History and Its Readers. Theofili holds an undergraduate degree in Greek Philology from the University of Athens, and an M.St. in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from the University of Oxford.Lorenzo M. Bondioli is a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University. He obtained his B.A. in History at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and also graduated from the School of Archival Studies, Paleography and Diplomatics of the State Archives of Rome, thereafter completing an M.Phil. in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at Balliol College, Oxford. He is currently participating in the Framing the Late Antique and Early Medieval Economy international project.

• ContentsPreface ixAcknowledgements xivList of Illustrations xvList of Contributors xviiiNote on Names and Terms xxvIntroduction 1Averil CameronPart 1The City1 Looking Eastwards: The Regina Orientis in Sidonius Apollinaris’Carmen 2 13Lynton Boshoff2 L’identité romaine est-elle exclusive a Constantinople? Dichotomieentre Byzance et les Balkans a l’époque médiobyzantine(VIe–XIIe siecles) 25Vincent Tremblay3 City and Sovereignty in East Roman Thought, c.1000–1200: IoannesZonaras’ Historical Vision of the Roman State 41Nicholas S. M. MatheouPart 2Connections & Coercion4 “Furnish Whatever is Lacking to Their Avarice”: The PaymentProgramme of Cyril of Alexandria 67Walter F. Beers5 Constantinopolitan Connections: Liudprand of Cremonaand Byzantium 84Andrew M. Small6 Strengthening Justice through Friendship and Friendshipthrough Justice: Michael Psellos and the Provincial Judges 98Jonas NilssonPart 3The Civic & The Holy7 Eusebius’ Caesarea: The Writing of History and the Dynamicsof Ecclesiastical Politics in Fourth-Century Palestine 111Robson Della Torre8 Spectatorship in City and Church in Late Antiquity: Theoria Returnsto the Festival 127Byron MacDougall9 Constantinople and the Desert City: Imperial Patronage of theJudaean Desert Monasteries, 451–565 142Daniel Neary10 Citadels of Prayer: The Christian Polis under Siege from the Summerof 502 to the Summer of 626 159David GyllenhaalPart 4The Cities11 Province in Contrast to City: Irregularities and Peculiarities in theCoinage of Antioch (518–565) 175Pavla Drapelova12 Rome in the Seventh-Century Byzantine Empire: A Migrant’s NetworkPerspective from the Circle of Maximos the Confessor 191Philipp Winterhager13 Rus’ Dynastic Ideology in the Frescoes of the South Chapelsin St. Sophia, Kiev 207Sarah C. Simmons14 The Miracle Cycle between Constantinople, Thessalonike,and Mistra 226Maria Alessia RossiPart 5Reception & Response15 Constantinople and Alexandria between the Seventhand Eighth Centuries: The Representation of Byzantiumin Christian Sources from Conquered Egypt 243Cecilia Palombo16 A Forgotten Translation of Pseudo-Methodius in Eighth-CenturyConstantinople: New Evidence for the Dispersal of the GreekApocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius during the Dark Age Crisis 260Christopher Bonura17 Comprendre les « Sarrasins » a Byzance dans la premieremoitié du IXe siecle 277Jakub SypiańskiPart 6A Metropolitan Education: Texts & Contexts18 Byzantine Manuscript Colophons and the Prosopographyof Scribal Activity 297Jeremiah Coogan19 Sayings Attributed to Emperors of Old and New Romein Michael Psellos’ Historia Syntomos 311Theofili Kampianaki20 Ulysse, Tzetzes et l’éducation a Byzance 326Valeria Flavia LovatoPart 7To the Frontier21 Kastron, Rabaḍ and Arḍūn: The Case of Artanuji 345Nicholas Evans22 From the Frontier Cities to the City, and Back? ReinterpretingSouthern Italy in the De administrando imperio 365Lorenzo M. Bondioli23 Byzantine Art beyond the Borders of the Empire: A Case Studyof the Church of St. Chrysogonus in Zara 385Franka Horvat24 Master of Kastamon, Emperor of Eternity: Ioannes Komnenosas Border-maker and Border-breaker in Theodoros Prodromos’poem ‘On the advance to Kastamon’ 425Roman Shliakhtin25 ‘Ioannoupolis’: Lopadion as ‘City’ and Military Headquarters underEmperor Ioannes II Komnenos 435Maximilian LauBibliography 465Index 517