Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium: Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple

Explores a Byzantine emperor’s construction of authority with the help of his rhetorical texts

Examines the changes in the Byzantine imperial idea by the end of the fourteenth century with a particular focus on the instrumentalization of the intellectual dimension of the imperial ruleIntegrates late Byzantine imperial visions into the bigger picture of Byzantine imperial ideology Provides a fresh understanding of key pieces of Byzantine public rhetoric and introduces analytical concepts fro...