Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204–1330

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Dimiter Angelov

页数:474

出版时间:2007-2-8

价格:GBP 93.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780521857031

图书标签:拜占庭DABYZ晚期BYZ

This 2007 study was the first to systematically investigate Byzantine imperial ideology, court rhetoric and political thought after the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204 - in the Nicaean state (1204-61) and during the early period of the restored empire of the Palaiologoi. The book explores Byzantine political imagination at a time of crisis when the Empire ceased to be a first-rate power in the Mediterranean. It investigates the correspondence and fissures between official political rhetoric, on the one hand, and the political ideas of lay thinkers and churchmen, on the other. Through the analysis of a wide body of sources, a picture of Byzantine political thought emerges which differs significantly from the traditional one. The period saw refreshing developments in court rhetoric and political thought, some with interesting parallels in the medieval and Renaissance West, which arose in response to the new historical realities.