Arguing it out : discussion in twelfth-century Byzantium / Averil Cameron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cameron, Averil, author.

Series:

Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series.

The Natalie Zemon Davis annual lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Byzantine Empire.

Discourse analysis.

Byzantine Empire--History--Sources.

Byzantine Empire.

Byzantine Empire--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The social and cultural history of Byzantium seems at first sight unsuited to the kind of thick description at which Natalie Zemon Davis excels. Yet recent scholarship that aims to locate Byzantine culture and society within new global and transnational approaches to history demands a more nuanced understanding. In these lectures she will explore the question of what kind of thick description can be provided. She will focus on the long twelfth century, a time of intense creativity as well as of rising tensions, and one for which literary approaches are currently a lively area in current scholarship. She will argue for their integration within a broader approach to Byzantine social and cultural history focusing on discourse, and drawing on the many kinds of dialogue texts (secular and religious) that were a key feature of Byzantine textual production"--From publisher's website.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Inside Byzantium

Chapter 2. Latins and Greeks

Chapter 3. Jews and Muslims

Conclusions. Bringing it Together

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-71835-3

963-386-237-X

963-386-112-8

9781003718352

OCLC:

936609622