Neil Churchill

Power and Representation in Byzantium (eBook, ePUB)

The Forging of the Macedonian Dynasty

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book instead adopts a chronological approach and considers how Basil justified his seizure of power, and how his successors went on to articulate their own ideas about authority.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003835585
• Artikelnr.: 69536275

Autorenporträt

Neil Churchill is an independent scholar who specialises in art and politics in Byzantium and the early medieval west. He studied the art and kingship of the Carolingians at the University of Cambridge and completed his doctorate on the art of Basil I, Leo VI and Alexander, the first three Macedonian emperors of Byzantium, at the University of Sussex.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Basil I: usurping power
Laying foundations: Basil's building work
From emperor to dynasty: family and succession
Leo VI: continuity and change
Leo VI: power contested
Alexander: idler or innovator?
Dynasty destablised: the regency of Zoe
Dynasty under threat: Romanos I and the Lekapenoi
Constantine VII and the re-invention of the dynasty
Conclusion
Bibliography