Trends and Turning Points

Matthew Kinloch holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford (2014-18), an MRes from the University of Birmingham (2013-14), and a BA from the University of Durham (2010-13). He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.Alex MacFarlane is writing a D.Phil. titled Alexander Re-Mapped: Geography and Identity in the Alexander Romance in Armenia (University of Oxford). This follows an MSt in Classical Armenian Studies (University of Oxford) and an MA in Ancient History (KCL).

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsPart 1: Scholarly Constructions1 Constructing Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Introducing Trends and Turning PointsMatthew Kinloch2 Constructing the Past through the Present: The Eurasian View of Byzantium in the Pages of Seminarium KondakovianumFrancesco LovinoPart 2: Literary Trends3 The Power of the Cross: The Role of the Helper in Kassia’s Hymns’ Narratological Structure and Its Doctrinal ImplicationsLaura Borghetti4 Tzetzes, Eustathius, and the ‘city-sacker’ Epeius: Trends and Turning Points in the 12th-century Reception of HomerValeria Flavia Lovato5 Greek Explicating Greek: A Study of Metaphrase Language and StyleNikolas Churik6 Doing and Telling Administration and Diplomacy: Speech Acts in the 13th-Century BalkansMilan Vukašinović7 Laughing up the Sleeve: The Image of the Emperor and Ironic Discourse in George Pachymeres’ HistoriaMaria RukavichnikovaPart 3: Constructing Politics8 The Roman Revolution: Leo I, Theodosius II and the Contest for Power in the 5th CenturyDavid Barritt9 The Reinvention of the Soldier-Emperor under HeracliusTheresia Raum10 Omens of Expansionism? Revisiting the Caucasian Chapters of De Administrando ImperioKosuke Nakada11 The Madara Horseman and Triumphal Inscriptions in Krum’s Early Medieval Bulgaria (c.803–14)Mirela Ivanova12 The Emperor is for Turning: Alexios Komnenos, John the Oxite and the Persecution of HereticsJonas NilssonPart 4: Turning Points in Religious Landscapes13 Eight Hundred Years of the Cult of the Archangels at Aphrodisias/Stauropolis: Modern and Ancient NarrativesHugh Jeffery14 Crosses as Water Purification Devices in Byzantine PalestineStephen Humphreys15 Byzantium’s Ashes and the Bones of St Nicholas: Two Translations as Turning Points, 1087–1100Alasdair C. Grant16 Changing Profiles of Monastic Founders in Constantinople, From the Komnenoi to the Palaiologoi: The Case of the Theotokos Pammakaristos Monastery in ContextElif DemirtikenBibliographyIndex