Prolegomena

The Prologue: The Curtain Raiser

Introduction

Byzantium as a ‘Theater State’: Power, Ritual, Opposition

Part One: Red Byzantium

Chapter One: People and Power in Byzantium: The Making and Unmaking of Emperors
Chapter Two: The Rise of the Military Aristocracy
Chapter Three: The Komnenian Revolution
Chapter Four: The Leading Clans under the Komneni
Chapter Five: The Triumph of the Military Aristocracy Described

Part Two: Black Byzantium

Chapter Six: Monasteries in Komnenian Constantinople
Chapter Seven: The Komneni and the Monasteries
Chapter Eight: The Monastic Opposition
Chapter Nine: The Dogmatic Opposition
Chapter Ten: The Heretical Opposition

The Epilogue: The Curtain Drop

Conclusion

Bibliography

Appendix One

People and Power in Byzantium

Appendix Two

The List of All Charters Issued by the Komnenian Emperors

Index of All Military Holders in Anna Komnena’s Alexiad

List of Tables

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The Making and Unmaking of Emperors
The Highest Rank 1025–1081, 1081–1118
The Highest Rank 1025–1081, 1081–1118 Military v. Civil Aristocracy
Byzantine Clans with Top Titles under Alexios I
Byzantine Clans Holding the 4^th Grade under Alexios I
Byzantine Clans Holding the 3^rd Grade under Alexios I
Byzantine Clans Holding the 2^nd Grade under Alexios I
Byzantine Clans Holding the Lowest Grade under Alexios I
Military and Civil Aristocracy
Military and Civil Aristocracy In and Out
Aristocracy under Alexios I
Military Clans Going Civil under Alexios I
Military and Civil Aristocracy under Alexios I
The Aristocratic Mobility under Alexios I
Aristocratic Clans 1081–1180
Difference between 1081–1118 and 1118–1180
Top Clan Officials under Manuel I
Top Clans 976–1180
The Number of Houses Holding Grades 0–5
Total Number of Highest Titles (1–5)
Military and Civil Aristocracy
Total Highest Accumulated Points
Progression of Highest Titleholders of the Leading Clans under the Komneni (1095–1180)
Titleholders under Alexios I
Titleholders under Manuel I
Top Military Dignitaries under Alexios I
Byzantine Writers on Aristocracy
List of All Monasteries in Komnenian Constantinople
Number of Byzantine Scribes, Classified by Status
Percentages of Total Number of Byzantine Scribes
Lay Officials at the Synod of Blachernae (1094–95)
The Church Hierarchy at the Synod of Blachernae (1094–1095)
Lay Officials at the Synod of Blachernae (1157)
Lay Officials at the Council of 1166
The Church Hierarchy at the Council of 1166
Lay Officials at the Second Session of the Council of 1166
The Church Hierarchy at the Second Session of the Council of 1166
Lay Officials at the Council of 1170
The Church Hierarchy at the Council of 1170
All the Emperor’s Men at the Trial of Patriarch Cosmas of Constantinople (1146–1147)

List of Diagrams

Power and Solidarity
Power in Byzantium
The Anatomy of Power
The Anatomy of Power in Byzantium
Forms of Resistance in Byzantium
Accession and Departure of Emperors
Accession and End 602–717
Accession and End 717–820
Accesson and End 820–913
Accesson and End 913–1025
Accession and End 1025–1118
The Gnostic View of the Trinity
The Quaternity

List of Graphs

Alexios I’s Charters
Manuel I’s Charters
Accession 602–717
End of Rule 602–717
Accession 717–820
End of Rule 717–820
Accession 820–913
End of Rule 820–913
Accession 913–1025
End of Rule 913–1025
Accession 1025–1118
End of Reign 1025–1118
Byzantine Aristocracy: Mobility under Alexios I
Aristocracy under Alexios I
Aristocracy under Alexios I
Aristocratic Mobility under Alexios I
Difference between Alexios I and Later Komneni
Komnenian Aristocracy: Difference and Exclusion

List of Maps

Plan of Constantinople
The Division of the City into Faction Areas
Monasteries in Komnenian Constantinople

List of Illustrations

Emperor John II Komnenos (1118–1143)
Emperor Manuel I Komnenos (1143–1180)
Isakios Komnenos
Konstantinos Lips Monastery
The Pantokrator Monastery
The Pammakaristos Church and Monastery
The Pammakaristos’ Christ the Pantokrator
Church Fathers Handing Euthymios Zygabenos’ Panoplia Dogmatica
Alexios

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