TY - BOOK ID - 32273090 TI - Byzantium in the year 1000 PY - 2002 VL - 45 SN - 09285520 SN - 9004120971 9789004120976 1429407069 9781429407069 1280914610 9781280914614 9786610914616 6610914613 9047404092 9789047404095 PB - Leiden ; New York : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Empire byzantin KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Basil II Bulgaroctonus, 976-1025 KW - Kongress. KW - Politik. KW - Byzance KW - Byzantine Empire - History - Basil II Bulgaroctonus, 976-1025 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32273090 AB - One thousand years ago, the Byzantine Empire was reaching the height of its revival as a medieval state. The ten contributions to this volume by scholars from six European countries re-assess key aspects of the empire's politics and culture in the long reign of the emperor Basil II, whose name has come to symbolise the greatness of Byzantium in the age before the crusades. The first five chapters deal with international diplomacy, the emperor's power, and government in Asia Minor and the frontier provinces of the Balkans and southern Italy. The second half of the volume covers aspects of law, history-writing, poetry and hagiography, and concludes with a discussion of Byzantine attitudes to the Millennium ER -