TOUGHER, S., ED.: THE EMPEROR IN THE BYZANTINE WORLD. PAPERS FROM THE 47TH SPRING SYMPOSIUM OF BYZANTINE STUDIES

Shaun Tougher Introduction

Section I: : Imperial Families 1. Mark Humphries Family, dynasty, and the construction of legitimacy from to the Theodosians 2. Mike Humphreys The shifting importance of dynasty in Heraclian ideology 3. Mark Masterson Revisiting the bachelorhood of Basil II 4. Dimitri Korobeinikov Byzantine emperors and sultans of R ūm: Sharing power?

Section II: The Emperor’s Men: Court and Empire 5. Meaghan McEvoy Celibacy and survival in court politics in the fifth century AD 6. Jonathan Shepard The emperor’s ‘significant others’: Alexios I and his ‘Pivot to the West’ 7. Jonathan Harris Who was who at the court of Constantine XI, 1449-1453

Section III: The Emperor as Ruler: Duties and Ideals 8. Bernard H. Stolte ‘Law is king of all things ’? The emperor and the law 9. Frank R. Trombley and Shaun Tougher The emperor at war: Duties and ideals

Section IV: Imperial Literature: Emperor as Subject and Author 10. John Vanderspoel Imperial panegyric: Hortatory or deliberative oratory? 11. Oscar Prieto Domínguez The iconoclast saint: Emperor in Byzantine hagiography 12. Prerona Prasad Splendour, vigour, and legitimacy: The prefaces of the Book of Ceremonies (De cerimoniis) and Byzantine imperial theory 13. Nikolaos G. Chrissis Ideological and political contestations in post-1204 Byzantium: The orations of and the imperial court of 14. Savvas Kyriakidis The emperor in the History of John VI (1347-1354)

Section V: The Material Emperor: Image, Space and Empire 15. Alicia Walker The emperor at the threshold: Making and breaking taxis at Hagia Sophia 16. Lynn Jones Taking it on the road: The palace on the move 17. Mark Redknap Unveiling Byzantium in Wales: Connections and collections