The Byzantine Turks, 1204-1461 / by Rustam Shukurov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shukurov, R. (Rustam), author.

Series:

Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 105.

The Medieval Mediterranean, peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500 ; volume 105

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkic peoples--Byzantine Empire.

Turkic peoples.

Byzantine Empire--History--1081-1453.

Byzantine Empire.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 513 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2016]

Summary:

In 'The Byzantine Turks, 1204–1461' Rustam Shukurov offers an account of the Turkic minority in Late Byzantium including the Nicaean, Palaiologan, and Grand Komnenian empires. The demography of the Byzantine Turks and the legal and cultural aspects of their entrance into Greek society are discussed in detail. Greek and Turkish bilingualism of Byzantine Turks and Tourkophonia among Greeks were distinctive features of Byzantine society of the time. Basing his arguments upon linguistic, social, and cultural evidence found in a wide range of Greek, Latin, and Oriental sources, Rustam Shukurov convincingly demonstrates how Oriental influences on Byzantine life led to crucial transformations in Byzantine mentality, culture, and political life. The study is supplemented with an etymological lexicon of Oriental names and words in Byzantine Greek.

Contents:

Part I. The Byzantine classification of the Turks

Part II. Byzantine onomastics: problems of method

Part III. The "Persians" and the "Scythians"

Part IV. The Byzantine Turks in the Balkans

Part V. The noble lineages

Part VI. Assimilation tools

Part VII. Asians in the Byzantine Pontos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-473) and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Shukurov, R. (Rustam). Byzantine Turks, 1204-1461.

ISBN:

9789004305120

9004305122

OCLC:

932068716

Publisher Number:

9789004305120