Porphyrogenita : essays on the history and literature of Byzantium and the Latin East in honour of Julian Chrysostomides

Byzantine history and historiography: Michael Psellus, Michael Attaleiates: The blinding of Romanus IV at Kotyaion (29 June 1072) and his death on Proti (4 August 1072), Spyros Vryonis, Jr. The Porphyrogenita and the astrologers: a commentary on Alexiad VI.7.1-7, Paul Magdalino Romance and reality in the sources for the Sieges of Antioch, 1097-1098, Susan B. Edgington The legacy of Humbert and Cerularius: the tradition of the 'Schism of 1054' in Byzantine texts and manuscripts of the 12th and 13th centuries, Tia M. Kolbaba The 13th century in Byzantine Historical Writing, Ruth Macrides Edward II, Andronicus II and Giles de Argenteim: a neglected episode in Anglo-Byzantine relations, Jonathan Harris The Theme of Kinsterna, Nicos Nicoloudis The uses of 'history' in Byzantine diplomacy: observations and comparisons, Jonathan Shepard Appartenir a l'Empire, Patricia Karlin-Hayter. Byzantine hagiography, theology and monasticism: The Luxeuil connection: the transmission of the Vita of Julian and Basilissa (BHG 970), Anne Alwis Byzantine and Melkite iconophiles under iconoclasm, Ken Parry Palamism and the circle of Demetrius Cydones, Norman Russell Demetrius Cydones as a translator of Latin texts, Athanassia Glycofrydi-Leontsini Romanos Melodos uber das Monchtum, Johannes Koder The Greek-rite monastery of the Holy Saviour of Lingua Maris in Sicily, 1334-1415, Nicholas Coureas. Latins in the Greek east: William of Tyre and the Byzantine empire, Bernard Hamilton The Byzantine overlord of Genoese possessions in Romania, Nicholas Oikonomides New evidence on the Greek peasantry in Latin Romania, David Jacoby Hellenes kai Italoi emporoi sten Anaia tes Mikras Asias (arches 14ou ai. ), Chrysa Maltezou Circa conventionem alluminam sive allumeriarum...: Mia epicheirese ekmetalleuses stypterias sto doukato tou Aigaiou Pelagous (15os ai. ), Marina Koumanoudi Corruption and justice: the case of Ettore di Flisco and Ottobono Giustiniano, Kate Fleet The Hospitaller Commandery of the Morea: 1366, Anthony Luttrell Latin Morea in the late Middle Ages: observations on its demography and economy. Eleni Sakellariou. Byzantine texts and Greek palaeography: Sophocles and the Byzantine student, Patricia E. Easterling The 'Pege Gnoseos' of St John Damascene: its date and development, Andrew Louth A witness to the later tradition of the Florilegium in The Letter of the Three Patriarchs: an anonymous collection of icon stories (Hierosolymitanus S. Sabas gr. 105), Eirene Harvalia-Crook Blemmydes revisited: the letters of Nicephorus Blemmydes to Patriarch Manuel II, Joseph A. Munitiz Konstantinou Akropolite anekdotos logos stous hagious martyres Aniketo kai Photio, Maria Kalatzi Reality in the letters of Demetrius Cydones, George T. Dennis Manuel II Palaeologus' A Depiction of Spring in a Dyed, Woven Hanging, John Davis An unpublished funeral oration on Manuel II Palaeologus (+ 1425), Charalambos Dendrinos. (Part contents).