Byzantium in dialogue with the Mediterranean: history and heritage

Introduction : Byzantium in dialoguey / Danielle Slootjes and Mariette Verhoeven -- Introduction : Byzantinists and others / Averil Cameron -- Rome and Constantinople in confrontation : the quarrel over the validity of Photius's ordination / Evangelos Chrysos -- The Byzantine emperor in medieval Dalmatian exultets / Marko Petrak -- Building heavenly Jerusalem : thoughts on imperial and aristocratic construction in Constantinople in the 9th and 10th centuries / Matthew Savage -- Politics and diplomacy in the Mediterranean of the 10th century : Al-Andalus and Byzantium / Elsa Fernandes Cardoso -- Confrontation and interchange between Byzantines and Normans in Southern Italy : the cases of St. Nicholas of Myra and St. Nicholas the pilgrim at the end of the 11th century / Penelope Mougoyianni -- Fantasy, supremacy, domes, and dames : Charlemagne goes to Constantinople / Elena Boeck -- Similar problems, similar solutions : Byzantine Chrysobulls and Crusader charters on legal issues regarding the italian maritime republics / Daphne Penna.

"In twelve contributions, Byzantium in Dialogue with the Mediterranean. History and Heritage shows that throughout the centuries of its existence, Byzantium continuously communicated with other cultures and societies on the European continent, as well as North Africa and in the East. In this volume, 'History' represents not only the chronological, geographical and narrative background of the historical reality of Byzantium, but it also stands for an all-inclusive scholarly approach to the Byzantine world that transcends the boundaries of traditionally separate disciplines such as history, art history or archaeology. The second notion, 'Heritage', refers to both material remains and immaterial traditions, and traces that have survived or have been appropriated. Contributors are Hans Bloemsma, Elena Boeck, Averil Cameron, Elsa Cardoso, Cristian Caselli, Evangelos Chrysos, Konstantinos Chryssogelos, Penelope Mougoyianni, Daphne Penna, Marko Petrak, Matthew Savage, Daniëlle Slootjes, Karen Stock, Alex Rodriguez Suarez and Mariëtte Verhoeven"--