The Palace Complex
Stuart Airlie
This chapter considers palace sites as a distinctive institutional space, under two broad headings. First, did palaces form institution, were they closed and specialised spaces? Second, can be seen impersonal, which the author use to mean how act monuments in landscape even when ruler was not present? While ranging from late antiquity c. 1000, chapter's assumed norm is all too often of Carolingian Ottonian realms, but comments are at times deliberately general provoke further discussion potential comparison. In Byzantium Michael II gained power III lost it, it that key battleground prize. The turns features objective existence, permanence, aspects institutionality palace. Keywords: Byzantium; ralm; II; realm; permanence; total institution
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