TY - BOOK AU - Angelov,Dimiter AU - Saxby,Michael ED - Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Power and subversion in Byzantium: papers from the 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 2010 T2 - Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. Publications AV - DF552 .S68 2010eb U1 - 949.5/02 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, Vt. PB - Ashgate Variorum KW - Byzantine literature KW - History and criticism KW - Congresses KW - Subversive activities KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Dissenters KW - Politics and government KW - Intellectual life KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Power and subversion in Byzantium : approaches and frameworks / Dimiter Angelov -- Usurpers and rebels in Byzantium : image and message through coins / Vasiliki Penna and C�ecile Morrisson -- How to usurp the throne in Byzantium : the role of public opinion in sedition and rebellion / Anthony Kaldellis -- The imperial council and the tradition of consultative decision-making in Byzantium (eleventh to fourteenth centuries) / Demetrios Kyritses -- Financial crisis and the limits of taxation under Andronikos II Palaiologos (1282-1321) / Kostis Smyrlis -- The political arts at the late Palaiologan court (1402-1453) / Michael Angold -- "The world turned upside down" : art and subversion in Byzantium / Liz James -- "It began with a picture" : imperial art, texts and subversion between East and West in the twelfth century / Antony Eastmond -- No prince of perfection : Byzantine anti-Aristotelianism from the patristic period to Pletho / B�orje Byd�en -- Pletho as subversive and his reception in the Islamic world / Maria Mavroudi -- Generic subversion? : the political ideology of urban myth and apocalyptic prophecy / Paul Magdalino -- Harmless satire, stinging critique : notes and suggestions for reading the Timarion / Dimitris Krallis -- How to criticise the Laudandus / Margaret Mullett -- Subversion and duplicity in the histories of John Kantakouzenos / Athanasios Angelou -- Afterword : literary subversion in Byzantium: a partial and personal perspective / Margaret Alexiou; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10747998 ER -