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"The designation of Istanbul by the European Union's Council of Ministers as the European Capital of Culture for 2010 was instrumental in the decision to focus on Constantinople in the Second International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium, which was held on 21-23 June 2010 at the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. The particular theme of the symposium, 'The Byzantine Court: Source of Power and Culture,' was selected, on the other hand, in view of Constantinople's essential role as Byzantine imperial capital soon after its foundation by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great on 11 May 330. The aim of the symposium was to evaluate, from administrative, political, social, economic, and religious perspectives, the impact of the political power that spread out from the Great Palace and, as of the twelfth century, from the Blachernai Palace to the rest of the empire, and to investigate the reflections of this power in the cultural sphere. Presented in this volume are thirty out of the forty papers delivered at the Second International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium. The papers have been grouped under the following four section headings: 'Byzantine Palace Architecture,' 'The Byzantine Court as the Center of Imperial Power,' 'Ceremonies at the Court and in the City,' and 'Court Culture and Visual Arts.'"-- Defining Byzantine Culture / Diether Roderich Reinsch -- Byzantium as the New Rome / Michael Bibikov -- Byzantium as Repository of Graeco-Roman Culture / Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Byzantium and the Judaic Tradition / Nicholas de Lange -- Byzance et l'Islam / Erich Trapp -- The Literature of Sixth-Century Byzantium / Roger Scott -- L'art à l'époque de Justinien / Jean-Michel Spieser -- Dark-Age Literature / John Haldon -- Early Frescoed Icons: a Case of Cultural Divergence between East and West / Beat Brenk -- Prolégomènes à la littérature byzantine du IXe et du Xe siècle / Paolo Odorico -- L'art byzantin aux Xe-XIe siècles : témoin des traditions et des relations culturelles au Proche-Orient / Marielle Martiniani-Reber -- Komnenian Literature / Ingela Nilsson -- Komnenian Art / Robin Cormack -- The Literature of Palaiologan Byzantium / Staffan Wahlgren -- La peinture paléologue de Constantinople : "au Royaume des Ombres" / Mauro della Valle -- L'influence byzantine sur la Perse sassanide / Geoffrey Greatrex -- Byzantium and the Arabs: Cultural Contributions and Intercultural Transmission / Ahmad Shboul -- Byzantine Cultural Influence on the West / Dion Smythe -- Byzantine Culture and the Crusader States / David Jacoby -- Byzantium and the Slavs / Sergey Ivanov -- Caucasia and Byzantine Culture / Stephen H. Rapp Jr. -- Byzantinisch-Jüdische Interaktion im Östlichen Mittelmeerraum / Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis -- Byzantine Culture in Late-Mediaeval Greek States / Alkmeni Stavridou-Zafraka -- Au tournant du millénaire : la présence de Byzance dans la société grecque d'aujourd'hui / Paris Gounaridis -- Byzantine and Turkish Heritages / Rudi Paul Lindner -- Architectural Transformations in Mediaeval Anatolia (with Special Reference to Central Asia) / Ali Uzay Peker -- Ottoman Architecture in the Light of Byzantine Examples / Jale Erzen -- Le droit byzantin : essai d'introduction / Constantin G. Pitsakis -- La diplomatie byzantine / Jean-Claude Cheynet -- Byzantine Court Culture / Michael Jeffreys -- Monastic Culture in the Middle Byzantine Empire / Margaret Mullett -- La science byzantine : entre Anciens et Modernes / Anne Tihon -- Eulogie und Panegyrik in Byzanz / Michael Grünbart -- Byzantine Writing in the Vernacular / Ulrich Moennig -- Mainstream Texts, Viral Media and Hidden Agendas in the Tradition of Patria Texts / John Burke -- Centres de copie de la "Ville" et des provinces à Byzance / Paul Canart -- La decoration des manuscrits à l'époque des Paléologues : le Tétraévangile Vlorë 10 et la production du Monastère des Hodèges à Constantinople / Axinia Džurova -- Cuisine and Dining in Byzantium / Johannes Koder -- Attire and Personal Appearance in Byzantium / Bente Kiilerich -- Mariage et rapports entre les sexes à Byzance : aspects généraux / Charis Messis
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