Contents

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Acknowledgments

pp.：  9 – 10

List of Maps and Illustrations

pp.：  11 – 14

List of Contributors

pp.：  15 – 18

Comparative Approaches to the Ritual World of the Medieval Mediterranean

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Part One Rituals and the Transformation of the Roman World

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Chapter One Imperial Birthday Rituals in Late Antiquity

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Chapter Two Phthonos: A Pagan Relic in Byzantine Imperial Acclamations?

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Chapter Three Ritualized Encounters: Late Roman Diplomacy and the Barbarians, Fifth–Sixth Century

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Chapter Four The Architecture of Allegiance in Early Islamic Late Antiquity: The Accession of Mu'āwiya in Jerusalem, ca. 661 CE

pp.：  105 – 130

Part Two Succession Procedures and their Ritual Articulations

pp.：  131 – 242

Chapter Five Describing Rituals of Succession and the Legitimation of Kingship in the West, ca. 1000–ca. 1150

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Chapter Six Ritual and Reality: The Bay'a Process in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Courts

pp.：  159 – 176

Chapter Seven Comnenian Imperial Succession and the Ritual World of Niketas Choniates’ Chronike Diegesis

pp.：  177 – 220

Chapter Eight Coronation Speeches in the Palaiologan Period?

pp.：  221 – 242

Part Three Invention, Appropriation and Transformation Between East and West

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Chapter Nine Ritual, Politics, and the City in Mamluk Cairo: The Bayna l-Qa'rayn as a Dynamic ‘lieu de mémoire’, 1250–1382

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Chapter Ten Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in the Latin Empire of Constantinople

pp.：  295 – 308

Chapter Eleven Featuring the King: Rituals of Coronation and Burial in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia

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Chapter Twelve Adventus, Arrivistes and Rites of Rulership in Byzantium and France in the Tenth and Eleventh Century

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Part Four Ritual Performances and their Reflections in Art and Literature

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Chapter Thirteen Violence in the Palace: Rituals of Imperial Punishment in Prokopios’s Secret History

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Chapter Fourteen The “Court of Amorous Dominion” and the “Gate of Love”: Rituals of Empire in a Byzantine Romance of the Thirteenth Century

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Chapter Fifteen Parodies of Imperial Ceremonial and their Reflections in Byzantine Art

pp.：  435 – 450

Chapter Sixteen Look Like an Angel: The Attire of Eunuchs and its Significance within the Context of Middle Byzantine Court Ceremonial

pp.：  451 – 482

Chapter Seventeen Designing Receptions in the Palace (De Cerimoniis 2.15)

pp.：  483 – 504

Chapter Eighteen Tented Ceremony: Ephemeral Performances under the Komnenoi

pp.：  505 – 532

Bibliography

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Index

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