BYZANTINE MACEDONIA Identity, Image, and History: Papers from the Melbourne Conference, July 1995

University. Fine. 2000. Softcover. 1876503068 . Still wrapped in plastic. ; Hese nineteen papers are invaluable to anyone interested in the Macedonian heritage or in the economy, administration, history and representation of Macedonia during the course of the Byzantine empire. ; Byzantina Australiensia; 231 pages; Angeliki Laiou: Thessaloniki and Macedonia in the Byzantine Period; Johannes Koder: Macedonians and Macedonia in Byzantine Spatial Thinking; Ioannis Tarnanidis: The Macedonians of the Byzantine Period; Johannes Irmscher: The Image of Macedonia As Found in Byzantine Historians; Andreas Schminck: The Beginnings and Origins of the 'Macedonian' Dynasty; Dion Smythe: Macedonians in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Byzantine Historiography; Apostolos Karpozilos: Macedonia as Reflected in the Epistolography of the Fourteenth Century; Martha Grigoriou-Ioannidou: The "kaq' huaV glwssa" in the Mauros' and Kuober's Episode (Miracula S. Demetrii 291) ; Dionyssia Missiou: The Importance of Macedonia During the Byzantine Era; Athanasios Karathanasis: Philip and Alexander of Macedon in the Literature of the Palaiologan Era; J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz: The Government of the Late Roman City with Special Reference to Thessaloniki; Alkmene Stavridou-Zafraka: The Development of the Theme Organisation in Macedonia; Gerhard Podskalsky: Two Archbishops of Achrida (Ochrid) and Their Significance for Macedonia's Secular and Church History: Theophylaktos and Demetrios Chomatenos; Demetrios Constantelos: Classical Greek Heritage in the Epistles of Theophylaktos of Achrida; Rosemary Morris: The Athonites and Their Neighbours in Macedonia in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries; Triantafyllitsa Maniati-Kokkini: Clergy and Laity 'Opponents' in Claims for Privileges and Land from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century; Michael Jeffreys Manuel Komnenos' Macedonian Military Camps: A Glamorous Alternative Court?; V. Nerantzi-Varmazi Western Macedonia in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries; Angeliki Laiou: The Economy of Byzantine Macedonia in the Palaiologan Period .