The Expansion of Orthodox Europe: Byzantium, the Balkans and Russia

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Half Title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Maps General Editor’s Preface Introduction PART ONE – THE BUOYANCY OF BYZANTIUM BEFORE 1204: ITS MANIFEST DESTINY AND MANY FRONTIERS 1 God and the ‘Family of Princes’ Presided Over by the Byzantine Emperor 2 The Strength of Empire and Capital as Seen Through Byzantine Eyes 3 The History of the Future and its Uses: Prophecy, Policy and Propaganda (with Postscript) 4 Emperors and Expansionism: From Rome to Middle Byzantium 5 Isaac II, Saladin and Venice 6 Byzantine Trade with Egypt from the mid-Tenth Century to the Fourth Crusade 7 Prayer, Illumination, and Good Times: The Export of Byzantine Wine and Oil to the North of Russia in pre-Mongol Times 8 Wine and Oil for All the Rus’ ! The Importation of Byzantine Wine and Olive Oil to Kievan Rus’ 9 The Many Frontiers of pre-Mongol Rus’ 10 Mission Impossible: Ups and Downs in Byzantine Missionary Activity from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth Century 11 The ‘Second Bulgarian Empire’. Its Origin and History to 1204 PART TWO – AFTER THE FALL: SHIFTING CENTRES OF THE ORTHODOX WORLD 12 Fragmentation (1204–1453) (with bibliography) 13 Some Observations on the Administrative Terminology of the Second Bulgarian Empire (13th–14th centuries) 14 Tsar Stephen Dušan and Mount Athos 15 Between Kingdom and Empire: Dušan’s State 1346–1355 Reconsidered 16 Divine Wisdom as Part of Byzantine Imperial Ideology. Research into the Artistic Interpretations of the Theme in Medieval Serbia. Narthex Programmes of Lesnovo and Sopoćani 17 Khan or Basileus: An Aspect of Russian Medieval Political Theory 18 ‘Know Thy Enemy’: Medieval Russian Familiarity with the Mongols of the Golden Horde 19 Under Pressure from the Pagans? – The Mongols and the Russian Church 20 Cultural Ties: Byzantium, the Southern Slavs and Russia 21 Late Byzantine Culture and the Slavs: A Study in Acculturation 22 The Holy Man and Christianization from the Apocryphal Apostles to St Stephen of Perm Index