Everything can see through the delices of the table it reserves to its hosts, in particular to the distinguished hosts. The staging of banquets contributes to the affirmation of its power. This was true in the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire of the East, which became ‘byzantin’, did not derogate from it. But perhaps more important than what you eat seems to have been what you did and what we saw. Byzance brought the so called 1 to its highest degree of refinement: this is the case...