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Cover 1 HalfTitle 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Maps 7 List of Illustrations 8 Prologue: Where is Thessalonica? 12 Therme and Thessalonica 16 Thessalonica, ‘city of Philip’ – what is in a name? 19 Sister cities? 28 Part I Setting the Scene 32 1 Methodology, Parameters and Subject Matter 34 Some observations on the cultural impact of the military saints 37 Towards a poetics of departures, marginalities and hurt 40 Constructions of the past 45 2 Thessalonica: Historical and Geographical Background 54 An ancient metropolis: from Macedonia to Rome 55 Early Christian Thessalonica (c. 50–395) 57 The second city 59 Hellenic rulers and Palaiologan heyday 60 Downfall and literary response 61 Thessalonica and Constantinople 64 Part II Byzantine Hymnography as a Signifier of Civic Identity in Thessalonica 86 3 Symeon of Thessalonica and the Sung Thessalonian Rite 92 4 A Byzantine Hymn to St Demetrius as an Example of Civic Identity 116 The hymn 117 The text 119 The context 125 Part III Legacies of the Thessalonian Byzantine Culture 130 5 Andronikos Kallistos: An Intellectual Biography of an Émigré from Thessalonica 136 The voice of exile: Andronikos Kallistos’s death in London (147

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Russell, Eugenia;

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