Ebook: Authority in Byzantium

The authority of the state -- Aspects of moral leadership : the imperial city, and lucre from legality / Jonathan Shepard -- Trial by ordeal in Byzantium : On whose authority? / Ruth Macrides -- A Case Study: The Use of the Nominative on Imperial Portraits from Antiquity to Byzantium / Sergey Ivanov -- Response / Susan Reynolds -- Authority in the market-place -- Displaying the emperor's authority and kharakter on the marketplace / Cécile Morrisson -- The authority of the Eparchos in the markets of Constantinople (according to the Book of the Eparch) / Johannes Koder -- Response / Chris Wickham -- The authority of the church -- Coming of Age in Byzantium : Agency and Authority in Rites of Passage from Infancy to Adulthood / Jane Baun -- The authority of the Church in uneasy times : the example of Demetrios Chomatenos, Archbishop of Ohrid, in the state of Epiros 1216-1236 / Günter Prinzing -- Response / Miri Rubin -- Authority within the family -- Family ties, bonds of kinship (9th-11th century) / Christine Angelidi -- The limits of marital authority : examining continence in the lives of Saints Julian and Basilissa, and saints Chrysanthus and Daria / Anne P. Alwis -- Response / Jinty Nelson.