Leslie Brubaker - Approaches to the Byzantine Family

Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies

About the series

Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies is devoted to the history, culture and archaeology of the Byzantine and Ottoman worlds of the East Mediterranean region from the fifth to the twentieth century. It provides a forum for the publication of research completed by scholars from the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham, and those with similar research interests.

About the volume

The study of the family is one of the major lacunas in Byzantine Studies. Angeliki Laiou remarked in 1989 that the study of the Byzantine family is still in its infancy, and this assertion remains true today. The present volume addresses this lacuna. It comprises 19 chapters written by international experts in the field which take a variety of approaches to the study of the Byzantine family, and embrace a chronological span from the later Roman to the late Byzantine empire.

About the editors

Professor Leslie Brubaker is Director of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, UK.

Dr Shaun Tougher is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History in the Cardiff School of History, Archaeology & Religion at Cardiff University, UK.

Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies

The Emperor Theophilos and the East, 829842
Court and Frontier in Byzantium during the Last Phase of Iconoclasm
Juan Signes Codoer

Architecture and Hagiography in the Ottoman Empire
The Politics of Bektashi Shrines in the Classical Age
Zeynep Yrekli

The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium
Texts and Images
Edited by Leslie Brubaker and Mary B. Cunningham

Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium
Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond
Antony Eastmond

Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire
A Systematic Survey of Subsistence Crises and Epidemics
Dionysios Ch. Stathakopoulos

Church Law and Church Order in Rome and Byzantium
A Comparative Study
Clarence Gallagher

Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era (ca 680850): The Sources
An Annotated Survey
Leslie Brubaker and John Haldon

APPROACHES TO THE BYZANTINE FAMILY

BIRMINGHAM BYZANTINE AND OTTOMAN STUDIES

Volume 14

General Editors

Leslie Brubaker

A.A.M. Bryer

Rhoads Murphey

John Haldon

Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies University of Birmingham

Edited by

LESLIE BRUBAKER
Birmingham University, UK

SHAUN TOUGHER
Cardiff University, UK

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Copyright 2013 Leslie Brubaker and Shaun Tougher

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Approaches to the Byzantine Family / [edited] by Leslie Brubaker and Shaun Tougher.

pages cm. (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies)

Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Families Byzantine Empire. 2. Byzantine Empire Social conditions. 3. Byzantine Empire Social life and customs. I. Brubaker, Leslie. II. Tougher, Shaun.
HQ513.A67 2013
306.8509495dc23

2013008921

ISBN 9781409411581 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315567440 (ebk)

Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
Volume 14

Mary Harlow and Tim Parkin

Julia Hillner

Ville Vuolanto

Fotis Vasileiou

Nathan Howard

Emma Southon, Mary Harlow and Chris Callow

Julia Bray

Eve Davies

Leslie Brubaker

Cecily Hennessy

Claudia Ludwig

Simon Ellis

Stavroula Constantinou

Michel Kaplan

Shaun Tougher

Nadia Maria El Cheikh

Dirk Krausmller

Leonora Neville

Fotini Kondyli

Shaun Tougher