IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 815: Ruling Byzantium: Regulating Ceremony, Diplomacy, and Monasticism in the Middle Byzantine Empire
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Cardiff Centre for Late Antique Religion & Culture, Cardiff University |
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Organiser: | Shaun Tougher, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University |
Moderator/Chair: | Shaun Tougher, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University |
Paper 815-a | Byzantine Rules That Are Adaptable: A Contradiction? (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Mentalities |
Paper 815-b | Helmsmanship, History, and Rule-of-Thumb in Constantine VII's De administrando imperio (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Byzantine Studies |
Paper 815-c | The Imperial Rules for Athos in the 10th and 11th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies |
Abstract | This session will explore key middle Byzantine texts for the regulation of ceremonial, diplomacy and monasticism. Ann Moffatt will focus on Constantine VII's Book of Ceremonies, and will ponder to what extent the protocols for ceremony and court hierarchy were adapted or were antiquated. Jonathan Shepard will consider Constantine VII's De administrando imperio and analyse the blend of principle and pragmatism in the emperor's advice to his son on governing the empire. Shaun Tougher will turn to monasticism, and study the circumstances which led to imperial intervention in the governance of monasteries on Athos and ask how imperial legislation interacted with the regulations issued by the founders of individual houses. |