Dedication

pp 5-6

Contents

pp 7-9

List of Figures and Tables by Chapter

pp 9-10

Acknowledgments

pp 11-12

Introduction

pp 13-32

Part I - Communication and the Formation of Polities

pp 33-34

1 - Towards a Comparative History of Political Communication, c.1000-1500

pp 35-100

2 - Administrative Elites and Political Change

pp 101-104

2.1 - Fragmentation and Financial Recentralization: The Emergence of the Four General Commands (1127-1165)

pp 105-142

2.2 - Administrative Elites and the ‘First Phase of Byzantine Humanism’: The Adoption of the Minuscule in Book Production and the Role of the Stoudios Monastery

pp 143-172

3 - Language and Political Communication in France and England (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries)

pp 173-202

Part II - Letters and Political Languages

pp 203-204

4 - Political Communications, Networks, and Textual Evidence: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Approach to Written Sources using Letter Collections

pp 205-238

5 - Latin and Classical Chinese Epistolographic Communication in Comparative Perspective

pp 239-286

6 - Yao Mian’s Letters: The Epistolary Networks of a Late Song Literatus

pp 287-312

Part III - Communication and Political Authority

pp 313-314

7 - Communication and Empire: Byzantium in Perspective

pp 315-344

8 - Giving the Public Due Notice in Song China and Renaissance Rome

pp 345-382

9 - The Printers’ Networks of Chen Qi (1186–1256) and Robert Estienne (1503–1559): A Micro-Comparative Approach to Political Dependence and Censorship

pp 383-438

Part IV - Memory and Political Imaginaries

pp 439-440

10 - Letters and Parting Valedictions: Zhang Yu and Political Communication in Mid-Eleventh-Century Sichuan

pp 441-480

11 - Yue Fei and Thomas Becket: Elite Masculinities in Comparison

pp 481-522

12 - Imaginaries of Empire and Memories of Collapse: Parallel Narratives in Southern Song and Byzantine Commemorations of Conquered Capitals

pp 523-570

Epilogues

pp 571-572

1 - Communication Breakthroughs: Conditions and Consequences

pp 573-596

2 - Thoughts on the Problem of Historical Comparison between Europe and China

pp 597-614

List of Contributors

pp 615-618

Index

pp 619-633