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This translation, with commentary and introduction, brings together three important, if generally neglected, works that cast great light on politics and ideology in early Byzantium. Agapetus wrote, c. 527-30 CE, from a position sympathetic to the emperor Justinian, when he had still to consolidate his authority. He sets out what an emperor must do to acquire legitimacy, in terms of government as the imitation of God. The Dialogue, written anonymously towards the end of the same reign, comprises fragments from Books 4-5 of a philosophically sophisticated (and now lost) longer work, setting out requirements for the ideal polity, based on a similar concept of imperial rule, with extensive comment on matters of current political salience but from an implicitly hostile standpoint. Not only does the text reflect the nature of Neoplatonic political philosophy but it also delves into the inner realities of the time, and the political problems of Constantinople during the first half of the sixth century. The third text was written by Paul the Silentiary to mark the re-dedication of the Great Church Hagia Sophia, built thirty years earlier under Justinian's orders.

Byzantine Empire --- Empire byzantin --- History --- Sources --- Histoire --- Politics and government --- Neoplatonism --- Byzantine literature --- Agap¿etos. --- Paul, --- Neoplatonism. --- Byzantine literature. --- Sources. --- Byzantine Empire - History - Justinian I, 527-565 --- Byzantine Empire - Politics and government - 527-1081

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Legislators --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Social conditions. --- Byzantine Empire --- History --- Legislative bodies --- Upper chambers. --- Politics and government. --- Upper chambers --- Politics and government --- Emperors --- History. --- Rome. --- Rome --- Legislative bodies - Upper chambers --- Byzantine Empire - Politics and government

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In La Diplomatie byzantine, de l’Empire romain aux confins de l’Europe (Ve-XVe s.), twelve studies explore from novel angles the complex history of Byzantine diplomacy. After an Introduction, the volume turns to the period of late antiquity and the new challenges the Eastern Roman Empire had to contend with. It then examines middle-Byzantine diplomacy through chapters looking at relations with Arabs, Rus’ and Bulgarians, before focusing on various aspects of the official contacts with Western Europe at the end of the Middle Ages. A thematic section investigates the changes to and continuities of diplomacy throughout the period, in particular by considering Byzantine alertness to external political developments, strategic use of dynastic marriages, and the role of women as diplomatic actors. Contributors are are Jean-Pierre Arrignon, Audrey Becker, Mickaël Bourbeau, Nicolas Drocourt, Christian Gastgeber, Nike Koutrakou, Élisabeth Malamut, Ekaterina Nechaeva, Brendan Osswald, Nebojša Porčić, Jonathan Shepard, and Jakub Sypiański.

Middle Ages. --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- Dark Ages --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- World history, Medieval --- World history --- Medievalism --- History --- Byzantine Empire - Foreign relations - 527-1081 - Congresses --- Byzantine Empire - Foreign relations - 1081-1453 - Congresses --- Byzantine Empire - Politics and government - 527-1081 - Congresses --- Byzantine Empire - Politics and government - 1081-1453 - Congresses --- Byzantine Empire --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Bizantia --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Impero bizantino --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government

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Authority is an important concept in Byzantine culture whose myriad modes of implementation helped maintain the existence of the Byzantine state across so many centuries, binding together people from different ethnic groups, in different spheres of life and activities. Even though its significance to understanding the Byzantine world is so central, it is nonetheless imperfectly understood. The present volume brings together an international cast of scholars to explore this concept. The contributions are divided into nine sections focusing on different aspects of authority: the imperial authority of the state, how it was transmitted from the top down, from Constantinople to provincial towns, how it dealt with marginal legal issues or good medical practice; authority in the market place, whether directly concerning over-the-counter issues such as coinage, weights and measures, or the wider concerns of the activities of foreign traders; authority in the church, such as the extent to which ecclesiastical authority was inherent, or how constructs of religious authority ordered family life; the authority of knowledge revealed through imperial patronage or divine wisdom; the authority of text, though its conformity with ancient traditions, through the Holy scriptures and through the authenticity of history; exhibiting authority through images of the emperor or the Divine. The final section draws on personal experience of three great ‘authorities’ within Byzantine Studies: Ostrogorsky, Beck and Browning.

Authority --- History --- Byzantine Empire --- Politics and government --- Religious life and customs --- Intellectual life --- Social conditions --- Politics and government. --- Religious life and customs. --- Intellectual life. --- Social conditions. --- Authority - History - To 1500 --- Byzance --- Byzantine Empire - Politics and government --- Byzantine Empire - Religious life and customs --- Byzantine Empire - Intellectual life --- Byzantine Empire - Social conditions

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Byzantine Empire --- Nicaea, Empire of --- -Politics and government --- Politics and government --- Social history --- -Thirteenth century --- 949.504 --- 13th century --- Middle Ages --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- History --- Sociology --- History Modern Greece and Byzantine Empire, 1204-1453 --- -Nicaea, Empire of --- Politics and government. --- Byzantine Empire - Politics and government - 1081-1453 --- Nicaea, Empire of - - Politics and government --- -Byzantine Empire