List of Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: A Byzantine Narrative - How (Not) to Do Things with Ideology Part I: Narrative Subjectivity 1. Putting the 'I' into Ideology? Theoretical Framework 2. Doing Rhetoric, Making Emperors: Choniates and Mesarites 3. Blurring the Lines of Power: Akropolites and Jacob of Bulgaria 4. The Centre of the Circle: Laskaris and Blemmydes 5. Political Collectivity: Epirot Rulers and Bishops 6. Legal Collectivity: Epirot Subjects and Judges 7. In a Single Voice: Anatolian Peasants 8.

Getting the Father Out of Serbia: The Lives of Simeon 9. Independence or Integration? The Life of Sava Part II: Narrative Spatiality 10. Storytelling and the Production of Space: Theoretical Framework 11. Bodies Unbound: Travelling Practices of Mesarites, Blemmydes and Domentijan 12. Epistolary Nodes: Framing the Space in Hagiography 13. The Making of Chilandar I: Narrative Foundations 14. The Making of Chilandar II: Narrative Colonies 15. Producing the Rural: Narrative, Archives and Space around Lembiotissa 16.

Narrating Urbanity, Inside and Out: Laskaris, Apokaukos and Chomatenos Beyond the Commonplace: Making the Byzantine Worlds Bibliography.