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Part 1: The Byzantines and their World 1. The Byzantine Political Process at Crisis Point  2. The Rise of the Middle Byzantine Aristocracy and the Decline of the Imperial State  3. Money, Coins and the Economy  4. The Army and Military Logistics  5. The Study of Women and Children: Methodological Challenges and New Directions  6. Strong Women and their Husbands in Byzantine Historiography  7. Cherchez l’homme! Byzantine Men: A Eunuch Perspective  8. Slaves and Slavery  9. Monotheists, Dualists and Pagans  10. The Virtues and Faults of the Latin Christians  Part 2: The Written World  11. Political Literacy  12. Byzantine Military Manuals: Prescriptions, Practice, and Pedagogy  13. De Cerimoniis and the Great Palace  14. Rhetoric and Performance  15. Letter-writing  16. Trends and Developments in the Byzantine Poetic Tradition  17.  The Corps of Byzantine Historiography: An Interpretative Essay  18. Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Byzantine Italy: Medieval Conflicts in Local Perspective  19. The Miracles of Gregory Palamas by Philotheos Kokkinos  20. Writing for the Heart: the Spiritual Literature of Byzantium  Part 3: Heaven and Earth: Byzantine Art and Architecture  21. What is a Byzantine icon? Constantinople versus Sinai  22. Defining Liturgical Space  23. Celestial Hierarchies and Earthly Hierarchies in the Art of the Byzantine Church   24. Unofficial Art and the Resistance to Orthodoxy  25. Constantinople and the Construction of Medieval urban Identity  26. The Practice, Perception and Experience of Byzantine Fortification  27. Imperial Outliers: Building and Decorative Works in the Borderlands and Beyond  28. The Medieval Progeny of the Holy Apostles: Trails of Architectural Imitation across the Mediterranean  29. Sacred Space from Constantinople to Venice  Part 4: The World of Byzantine Studies  30. The History of Editing Byzantine Historiographical Texts   31. Byzantium in Nineteenth-century Greek Historiography  32. Pioneers of Popular Byzantine history: Freeman, Gregorovius, Schlumberger  33. A Case Study in the Emergence of Byzantine Studies: Serbia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries  34. Byzantium and Historical Sociology  35. Byzantium's European Future