1st Edition
Interpersonal Violence in Middle Byzantium Power Relations in the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries
Acknowledgements
A Note on Terminology and Translations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
I. Violence and Family Life
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Legacy of Late Antiquity
Chapter 3. Charity and Coercion in the Life of Philaretos the Merciful
Chapter 4. Battered Holy Wives
Chapter 5. Discipline, Defiance, and Retribution: Slaves and Violence in East Roman Oikos
Conclusion
II. Violence and Communal Life
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Murder Narratives and the Negotiation of Justice
Chapter 3. The Fool and the City: Violence, Marginality, and Sanctity in the Life of Andrew the Fool
Chapter 4. Rhetoric and Rivalry: Letters, Power, and Symbolic Violence in Tenth-Century Constantinople
Conclusion
Final Reflections: Seeing Violence, Seeing the Self
Bibliography
Biography
Fotis Vasileiou is Associate Professor of Byzantine History at the Ionian University, Greece. His work examines Byzantine social and cultural history, with particular attention to hagiography, monasticism, family life, interpersonal violence, childhood, disability, illness, caregiving, marginality, and everyday experience. He is the author of two books, on the father figure in late antique Christian literature (2013) and on the East Roman state in the fourth and fifth centuries (2020).
