Social and Political Thought in Byzantium. From Justinian I to the Last Palaeologus. Passages from Byzantine writers and documents. Translated with an introduction and notes.

Barker, Ernest:

Edité par Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1957

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xvi, 239 p. Der Schutzumschlag ist lichtbedingt leicht nachgedunkelt und leicht bestoßen, die Seiten sind papierbedingt nachgedunkelt, ansonsten ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen. / The dust jacket has darkened slightly due to light exposure and has some minor scuffing, the pages have darkened due to the paper, but otherwise it is a very good and clean copy with no markings. -- CONTENTS -- PART I -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BYZAN-TINE THOUGHT AND LITERATURE -- CHAPTER II. THE BYZANTINE BACKGROUND -- PART II -- THE PERIOD FROM THE ACCESSION OF JUSTINIAN I TO THE DEATH OF HERACLIUS -- (A.D. 527-641) -- § 1. AGAPETUS: 'AN EXPOSITION OF HEADS OF ADVICE AND COUNSEL' ADDRESSED TO JUSTINIAN I (circa 530) -- §2. A BYZANTINE DIALOGUE IN THE PLATONIC MANNER DE SCIENTIA POLITICA (? SIXTH CEN-TURY) -- A. Introduction -- B. The contents of the Dialogue (Book V) analysed, with a trans-lation of some passages -- § 3. A NOVELLA OF JUSTINIAN I ON THE EMPIRE AND THE PRIESTHOOD -- § 4. JOHANNES LYDUS DE MAGISTRATIBUS: THE CAREER OF A BYZANTINE OFFICIAL AND SCHOLAR -- PART III -- THE PERIOD FROM THE DEATH OF HERACLIUS: TO THE ACCESSION OF BASIL I (641-867) -- §1. TWO PASSAGES ON KINGSHIP FROM THE ROMANCE BARLAAM AND JOSAPHAT (? FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTH CENTURY) -- §2. A PASSAGE FROM THE PREFACE TO THE ECLOGA OF LEO III (726) -- $3. JOHN OF DAMASCUS ON CHURCH AND STATE (circa 730) -- §4. THEODORE OF STUDION ON CHURCH AND STATE (circa 800) -- PART IV -- THE PERIOD FROM THE ACCESSION OF BASIL I TO THE LATIN CONQUEST OF CONSTANTINOPLE (867-1204) -- §1. PASSAGES FROM LEGAL DOCUMENTS AND TREATISES, SECULAR AND ECCLESIASTICAL -- A. Secular Legal Documents and Treatises -- (a) Passages from the Epanag?g? (circa 880) -- Titulus II, on the Emperor Titulus III, on the Patriarch Titulus VIII, on the election of Bishops Titulus IX, on the duties proper to Bishops and other Clergy Titulus XI, on status (taxis) and Courts of Law Note on the appointment of a Patriarch in the year 970 -- (b) From the Book of the Eparch (? circa 900) -- (c) Two Novellae of Leo VI on the Senate (circa 900) -- (d) Preface to the De Administrando Imperio of Constantine VII and to his De Ceremoniis (both circa 950) -- [For the Novella of Nicephorus Phocas on Monasteries (964) see § 3] -- B. Ecclesiastical Legal Treatises, by Theodore Balsamon (circa 1180) -- (a) The rights of the Emperor in and over the Church -- (b) The relations of Patriarchs and Emperors and the privileges of Patriarchs -- Note: A comparison of the views of Theodore Balsamon and those of Pope Gelasius I -- §2. PHOTIUS (circa 820-891) -- Introduction -- Passages from a letter of Photius to Michael of Bulgaria on the function of a Prince -- Note on Nicolas Mysticus, once a pupil of Photius -- § 3. PHILOPATRIS: A DIALOGUE IN THE STYLE OF LUCIAN, DEFENDING THE EMPEROR NICEPHORUS PHOCAS AND SATIRIZING MONKS AND MONASTIC PROPERTY (circa 964-9) -- (a) The Novella of 964 on monastic endowments -- (b) The views of the author of the Philopatris on monks and monasticism -- §4. THE STRATEGICON OF KEKAUMENOS AND THE DE OFFICIO REGIS OF NICULITZAS (circa 1070-80) -- Introduction -- (a) Passages from the Strategicon -- (b) Passages from the De Officio Regis -- §5. PSELLUS (circa 1018-78) -- Introduction -- (a) Psellus on his lectures in the school of philosophy -- (b) On rhetoric, philosophy, the life of society and politics, and the life of contemplation -- § 6. MICHAEL OF EPHESUS: A COMMENTARY ON ARIS-TOTLE'S POLITICS (circa 1070-80) -- Introduction -- (a) Commentary on Politics ? c. x and c. xi -- (b) Commentary on Politics III. c. xv -- (c) Passages in the commentary which refer to contemporary con-ditions -- §7. PASSAGES FROM THE FABLE STEPHANITES AND ICHNELATES ON KINGS AND THEIR ADVISERS (FROM THE GREEK VERSION MADE circa 1080) -- Introduction -- (a) How a King should choose his ministers -- (b) The dangers which threaten a King -- (c) A rebuke to intriguers -- $8. THEOP.

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• Titre: Social and Political Thought in Byzantium. From Justinian I to the Last Palaeologus. Passages from Byzantine writers and documents. Translated with an introduction and notes.
• Éditeur: Oxford : The Clarendon Press
• Date de parution: 1957
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover with dust jacket.
• État de l'article: Sehr gut
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Poids: 250 grammes
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Byzantinistik