International congress of byzantine studies belgrade, 22 27 august 2016

Zdenko Zlatar
University of Sydney, Department of History (SOPHI), Sydney NSW, Australia; 
[e-mail]
Imperial Power in Komnenian Byzantium (1081-1180)
It is a well-established fact among the Byzantinists that the period of the Komnenian dynasty 
(1081-1185) was in many ways subject to great changes in the projection of Imperial power and how 
power was exercised. This is usually subsumed under the euphemism of the Komnenian revolution. 
Yet, so far no attempt has been made to give necessary precision to this concept, least of all statistically 
and/or quantitatively. Using Alexander Kazhdan’s database in his study of Byzantine aristocracy 
my recent study of this period, Golden Byzantium: Imperial Power in Komnenian Constantinople 
(1081-1180) provides the first quantitative study of this phenomenon, i.e. who was in and who was 
out under the first three Komnenian emperors, Alexis I, John II, and Emanuel I.

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THE EARLY BYZANTINE CHURCH
Chairs: 
Mikhail Gratsianskiy, Manya Erna Shirinyan
Sara Lazić
, 
Trials of the Christians in the Eastern Roman Empire at the Beginning of the 4
th
Century
Marko Šukunda
, 
Emperor Julian the Apostate and His Attitude towards the Church
Andra Juganaru
, 
Theological and Monastic Reform in the Fourth-Century Near-East
Mikhail Gratsianskiy
, 
The Churches of Rome and Constantinople at the End of the 5
th
C.: 
“Acacian” or rather “Felician Schism”?
Ilija Marčetić
, 
Pastoral and Theological Cooperation of the Emperor Marcian and St. Leo the Great 
for the Preservation of Orthodox Christological Creedal Thought of the Church
Manya Erna Shirinyan
, 
Byzantine Policy Concerning the Government of Christendom by Patriarchal Sees: 
“Tetrarchy” and Pentarchy