Part I
An Introduction: Approaches, Methods, Sources
1. Understanding Social Conflict
2. The Analytical Framework
Part II
Three Major Conflicts: in Agriculture, the Factions, and the Churches
3. Social Conflict in Countryside and Town
4. Two Empire-wide Conflicts: The Factions and the Christians
Part III
Ideological Conflicts
Their Mediation and Management
5. Ideological Conflict in the Reign of Justinian I
6. Constructing Legitimacy
7. Hagia Sophia: Ideology in Stone
A Case Study
8. Conclusions.