Serving Byzantium's Emperors

Dimitris Krallis is Associate Professor at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He writes on questions of politics, society, intellectual culture, and governance in the middle Byzantine period.

• Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Attaleiates’ Time: Byzantium in the Eleventh Century.- Chapter 3 Paper, Parchment and Ink: The Sources for Attaleiates’ Biography.- Chapter 4 Attaleia: The Busy, Bustling Fringe.-Chapter 5 To the Capital Seeking Wisdom.- Chapter 6 Attaleiates’ Household.- Chapter 7 The Courts of Justice, The Court and the Courtiers.- Chapter 8 The Army in Society – The Society of the Army.- Chapter 9 The Judge on Horseback – The Empire at War.- Chapter 10 Byzantine ‘Republicanism’: Attaleiates’ Politics of Accommodation and Self-Interest.- Chapter 11 Piety, Tax-Heavens and the Future of the Family.- Chapter 12 Culture Wars and a Judge’s Roman Piety.- Chapter 13 A Short Conclusion.