Eastern Approaches to Byzantium 1st Edition by Antony Eastmond 9780754603221 0754603229

1. Speros Vryonis Jr The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century: The book in the light of subsequent scholarship, 1971–98

Section I Byzantium’s eastern frontier

2. Jonathan Shepard Constantine VII, Caucasian openings and the road to Aleppo

3. Catherine Holmes ‘How the east was won’ in the reign of Basil II

4. Jean-Claude Cheynet La conception militaire de la frontière orientale (IXe–XIIIe siècle)

Section II History writing in the east

5. Carole Hillenbrand Some reflections on Seljuq historiography

6. Robert W. Thomson The concept of ‘history’ in medieval Armenian historians

7. Stephen H. Rapp Jr From bumberazi to basileus: writing cultural synthesis and dynastic change in medieval Georgia (Kˊartˊli)

Section III Byzantines

8. Liz James Bearing gifts from the east: imperial relic hunters abroad

9. Catherine Jolivet-Lévy Art chrétien en Anatolie turque: le témoignage de peintures inédites à Tatlarin

Section IV Georgians

10. Zaza Skhirtladze Newly discovered early paintings in the Gareja desert

11. Brigitta Schrade Byzantium and its eastern barbarians: the cult of saints in Svanetˊi

12. Giorgi Tcheishvili Georgian perceptions of Byzantium in the eleventh and twelfth centuries

13. David Buckton Stalin and Georgian enamels

Section V Armenians

14. Lynn Jones The visual expression of power and piety in medieval Armenia: the palace and palace church at Aghtamar

15. Helen C. Evans Imperial aspirations: Armenian Cilicia and Byzantium in the thirteenth century

Section VI Seljuqs and Turkomans

16. Rustam Shukurov Turkoman and Byzantine self-identity. Some reflections on the logic of title-making in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Anatolia

17. Pamela Armstrong Seljuqs before the Seljuqs: nomads and frontiers inside Byzantium