Acknowledgments . ixList of Maps and Illustrations . xiList of Contributors . xvComparative Approaches to the Ritual World of the Medieval Mediterranean . 1Alexander Beihammer Part One: Rituals and the Transformation of the Roman World 1. Imperial Birthday Rituals in Late Antiquity . 37Maria Kantirea2. Phthonos: A Pagan Relic in Byzantine Imperial Acclamations? .
51Martin Hinterberger3. Ritualized Encounters: Late Roman Diplomacy and the Barbarians, Fifth-Sixth Century . 67Walter Pohl4. The Architecture of Allegiance in Early Islamic Late Antiquity: The Accession of Muawiya in Jerusalem, ca. 661 CE . 87Andrew Marsham Part Two: Succession Procedures and their Ritual Articulations 5. Describing Rituals of Succession and the Legitimation of Kingship in the West, ca. 1000-ca.
1150 . 115Björn Weiler6. Ritual and Reality: The Baya Process in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Courts . 141Eric J. Hanne7. Comnenian Imperial Succession and the Ritual World of Niketas Choniates's Chronike Diegesis . 159Alexander D. Beihammer8.
Coronation Speeches in the Palaiologan Period . 203Antonia Giannouli Part Three: Invention, Appropriation and Transformation between East and West 9. Ritual, Politics, and the City in Mamluk Cairo: The Bayna l-Qasrayn as a Mamluk 'lieu de mémoire', 1250-1382 . 227Jo Van Steenbergen10. Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in the Latin Empire of Constantinople . 277Stefan Burkhardt11. Featuring the King: Rituals of Coronation and Burial in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia . 291Ioanna Rapti12.
Adventus, Arrivistes and Rites of Rulership in Byzantium and France in the Tenth and Eleventh Century . 337Jonathan Shepard Part Four: Ritual Performances and their Reflections in Art and Literature 13. V iolence in the Palace: Rituals of Imperial Punishment in Prokopios's Secret History . 375Stavroula Constantinou14. The "Court of Amorous Dominion" and the "Gate of Love": Rituals of Empire in a Byzantine Romance of the Thirteenth Century . 389Panagiotis A. Agapitos15. Parodies of Imperial Ceremonial and Their Reflections in Byzantine Art .
417Henry Maguire16. Look like an Angel: The Attire of Eunuchs and Its Significance within the Context of Middle Byzantine Court Ceremonial . 433Maria Parani17. Designing Receptions in the Palace (De Cerimoniis 2.15) . 465Christine Angelidi18. Tented Ceremony: Ephemeral Performances under the Komnenoi . 487Margaret MullettBibliography .
515Index . 565.