Cette recherche se propose d’étudier l’évolution des relations entre Constantinople et les provinces micrasiatiques de l’Empire entre le IXe et le XIe siècle, en ce qui concerne les formes concrètes de l’administration et de l’exploitation des territoires provinciaux, ainsi que la perception et la représentation culturelle de ce rapport. Nous sommes concentré en particulier sur le rôle politique et social de l’aristocratie. Les représentants de ce groupe social étaient en effet les principaux interlocuteurs politiques du pouvoir impérial ; pendant toute la période considérée, ils remplirent une importante fonction de médiation entre le gouvernement central et la société provinciale, par l’exercice des fonctions publiques et par l’action de réseaux, parfois très étendus, de relations personnelles.Après avoir situé notre travail dans le contexte de la discussion historiographique et avoir reconstruit d’abord la représentation traditionnelle des provinces dans la littérature byzantine, ensuite la structure militaire, administrative et fiscale de l’administration provinciale, nous chercherons à définir les enjeux réels liés au contrôle des territoires orientaux à travers l’étude de trois macro-régions. À chaque fois nous nous efforcerons de déceler les intérêts économiques et stratégiques des institutions centrales, leurs rapports mutuels et leur interaction avec la société locale.Enfin, nous chercherons à décrire l’évolution du profil social de l’aristocratie méso-byzantine, de son idéologie et son attitude vis-à-vis de l’idéal impérial. Une telle analyse peut aider à mieux comprendre la crise qui bouleversa l’Empire à la veille de l’avènement d’Alexis Comnène. / This research aims to study the development of relations between Constantinople and the provinces of Asia Minor belonging to the Byzantine the Empire between the ninth and eleventh centuries. This study includes non only a research on the concrete ways to administer and exploit the provincial jurisdictions, but also the perception and cultural representation of the relation between center and periphery. We focused in particular on the political and social role of the aristocracy. The members of this social group were the main political agents of the imperial power; throughout the period, they filled an important mediating role between the central government and the provincial society, by the public functions they exercised and by the extensive and active networks of their personal relationships.After situating our work in the historiography, we dwell on the traditional representation of the provinces in the Byzantine literature, we also describe the military, administrative and fiscal structures of the provincial administration, seeking to identify the real issues related to the control of these Eastern territories, through the study of three macro-regions. For each of them, we try to identify the economic and strategic interests of the central institutions, their mutual relations and their interaction with the provincial society, particularly with the aristocracy.In the last part of this thesis, we try to describe the evolution of the meso-Byzantine aristocracy social profile, its ideology and its attitude vis-à-vis the imperial ideal. Such an analysis can help to understand the political and structural crisis that shook the Empire on the eve of Alexis Comnenus reign.

This thesis discusses the role and place of artists who painted icons in Early Byzantium. To date, they have not been the focus of much academic attention. Instead, information about artists is spread across a range of discussions concerning Byzantium and the history of art. This thesis collates and interprets the empirical and theoretical evidence to concentrate on the people who produced religious portraits before Iconoclasm. In so doing, I seek to further our understanding of these individuals, and offer a more nuanced view of their socio-cultural context, their practices, and the images they painted. This thesis is structured around two definitions of what the Early Byzantine artist could be: ideal and real. I start with the legend that St Luke painted portraits of Christ and the Virgin from life. Part One, ‘The Ideal Artist', considers in turn: the legend of St Luke as an artist and its origins; Luke as an ideal artist; and two other ideal artists: God and the emperor. Part Two, ‘The Real Artist', considers in turn: icons; literary and legislative texts; and finally the motivation for producing religious imagery before the eighth century. The anonymity of artists working in the Early Byzantine period seems to have delayed scholarly interest in them. In this thesis, however, I consider their anonymity as crucial evidence for who artists were: believers. Christian faith in Byzantium is a recurrent theme in this thesis. I argue that artists practiced humility by not signing their work and painted icons to demonstrate, develop, and deepen their love for God. Further, I argue that artists who depicted Mary and Jesus as Mother and Child, as Luke had done, imitated the Evangelist and participated in his image.

Texte remanié de: Dissertation--Wien--Universität Wien, 1996. / Bibliogr. p. [237]-240. Index.

Dissertation--Berlin--Freie Üniversitat, 1995. / Bibliogr. p. XIII-XXXII. Index.

Thesis (M.A.)--Jāmiʻat al-Qāhirah, 1967. / Includes bibliographical references (v. 3, p. 373-388).

Inaug.-Diss.--Munich. / Lebenslauf. "Abkürzungen für die meistbenutzte Quellenliteratur": p. 4. "Literatur": p. 5.

Thesis (doctoral)--Technische Universität Berlin, 1983. / Vols. two and three 43 cm. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, p. 424-438).

Inaug.-diss.--Ruprects-Karl-University, Heidelberg.

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The eleventh century was a momentous period in the history of the Eastern Empire. It saw the last great attempt, after the anti-aristocratic reaction of the eighth century, to reorganize the Empire on lines similar to those of the occidental world. The founder of the Comnenian dynasty granted pronoiai, land for military purposes, and gave immunities which increased the intrusion of the landed aristocracy into the rights of the State. [...]