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Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Illustrations 8 Contributors 12 Abbreviations 16 1. Power and subversion in Byzantium: approaches and frameworks 18 PART I: The Politics of Subversion 36 2. Usurpers and rebels in Byzantium: image and message through coins 38 3. How to usurp the throne in Byzantium: The role of public opinion in sedition and rebellion 60 4. The imperial council and the tradition of consultative decision-making in Byzantium (eleventh to fourteenth centuries) 74 5. Financial crisis and the limits of taxation under Andronikos II Palaiologos (1282–1321) 88 6. The political arts at the late Palaiologan court (1402–1453) 100 PART II: Art and Subversion 120 7. ‘The world turned upside down’: Art and subversion in Byzantium 122 8. ‘It began with a picture’: Imperial art, texts and subversion between East and West in the twelfth century 138 PART III: Philosophy 162 9. ‘No prince of perfection’: Byzantine anti-Aristotelianism from the patristic period to Pletho 164 10. Pletho as subversive and his reception in the Islamic world 194 PART IV: Literature and Subversion 222 11. Generic subversion? The political ideology of urban myth and apocalyptic prophecy 224 12. Harmless s

Published

2019

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EN