Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-442) and index.

Byzantium: a very, very short introduction / Liz James -- Writing histories of Byzantium: the historiography of byzantine history / Fiona Haarer -- Being Byzantine. -- Economics and "Feudalism" / Peter Sarris -- Byzantium = Constantinople / Paul Magdalino -- Provinces and capital / Catherine Holmes -- Insiders and outsiders / Dion Smythe -- Young people in Byzantium / Cecily Hennessy -- The good, the bad and the ugly / Myrto Hatzaki -- The memory culture of Byzantium / Amy Papalexandrou -- Emotions / Martin Hinterberger -- Having fun in Byzantium / Shaun Tougher -- God and the world. -- Byzantine views of God and the universe / Mary Cunningham -- Giving gifts to God: aspects of patronage in Byzantine art / Vassiliki Dimitropoulou -- Orthodoxy and northern peoples: goods, gods and guidelines / Jonathan Shepard -- Christology and heresy / Andrew Louth -- Beyond Byzantium: the non-Chalcedonian churches / Niall Finneran -- Reading Byzantine texts. -- No drama, no poetry, no fiction, no readership, no literature / Margaret Mullett -- Rhetorical questions / Mary Whitby -- Text and context in Byzantine historiography / Roger Scott -- Byzantine narrative: the form of story-telling in Byzantium / Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis and Ingela Nilsson -- Byzantine book culture / Judith Waring -- Some questions in material culture. -- Archaeology / James Crow -- Makers and users / Anthony Cutler -- Art beyond Byzantium / Antony Eastmond -- Icons and iconomachy / Leslie Brubaker -- The rise and fall of the Macedonian Renaissance / John Hanson -- Late and post-Byzantine art under Venetian rule: frescoes versus icons and Crete in the middle / Angeliki Lymberopoulou.