Глава 16 Императорский двор

Эпиграф к главе: al-Marwazi, Properties of Animals, tr. V. Minorsky, “Marwazi on the Vizantines” in his Medieval Iran and its Neighbours (London, 1982). P. 455–469.

A. A. Vasiliev, “Harun ibn Yahya and his description of Constantinople”, Seminarium Kondakovianum 5 (1932). P. 149–163.

Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Byzantium Viewd by the Arabs (Cambridge, Mass., 2004). P. 204.

John Haldon, “Chapters II, 44 and 45 of De Cerimoniis. Theory and Practicein tenth – century military administration”, Travaux et M?moires 13 (1999).

James Trilling, “Daedalus and the Nightingale: Art and Techno; ogyin the Myth of the Byzantine Court”, in Henry Maguire, ed., Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204 (Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, 1997). P. 217–230. Автор блестяще продемонстрировал понимание тонкостей «греческого огня» и придворных технологий, двух взаимосвязанных аспектов, влияющих на способность византийцев производить впечатление.

Alexander P. Kazhdan and Michael McCormic, “The Social World of the Byzantine Court” in Henry Maguire, ed., Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204. P. 167–197.