TY - BOOK ID - 85491858 TI - The emperor in the Byzantine world : papers from the 47th Spring Symposium of Byzantine studies PY - 2019 SN - 9781138218680 1138218685 9780429060984 042906098X 9780429592409 042959240X 9780429588525 0429588526 9780429590467 0429590466 PB - London Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Emperors KW - Czars (Emperors) KW - Rulers KW - Sovereigns KW - Tsars KW - Tzars KW - Kings and rulers KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Byzantium (Empire) KW - Vizantii︠a︡ KW - Bajo Imperio KW - Bizancjum KW - Byzantinē Autokratoria KW - Vyzantinon Kratos KW - Vyzantinē Autokratoria KW - Impero bizantino KW - Bizantia KW - Politics and government KW - History KW - Conferences - Meetings UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85491858 AB - The subject of the emperor in the Byzantine world may seem likely to be a well-studied topic but there is no book devoted to the emperor in general covering the span of the Byzantine empire. Of course there are studies on individual emperors, dynasties and aspects of the imperial office/role, but there remains no equivalent to Fergus Millar’s The Emperor in the Roman World (from which the proposed volume takes inspiration for its title and scope). The oddity of a lack of a general study of the Byzantine emperor is compounded by the fact that a series of books devoted to Byzantine empresses was published in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Thus it is appropriate to turn the spotlight on the emperor.Themes covered by the contributions include: questions of dynasty and imperial families; the imperial court and the emperor’s men; imperial duties and the emperor as ruler; imperial literature (the emperor as subject and author); and the material emperor, including imperial images and spaces.The volume fills a need in the field and the market, and also brings new and cutting-edge approaches to the study of the Byzantine emperor. Although the volume cannot hope to be a comprehensive treatment of the emperor in the Byzantine world it aims to cover a broad chronological and thematic span and to play a vital part in setting the agenda for future work. The subject of the Byzantine emperor has also an obvious relevance for historians working on rulership in other cultures and periods. ER -