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The concept of the elect nation in Byzantium / by Shay Eshel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eshel, Shay, author.
- Series:
- Medieval Mediterranean ; Volume 113.
- The Medieval Mediterranean ; Volume 113
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Election (Theology)--History of doctrines.
- Election (Theology).
- Byzantine Empire--History.
- Byzantine Empire.
- Byzantine Empire--Church history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 224 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
- Summary:
- In The Concept of the Elect Nation in Byzantium , Shay Eshel shows how the Old Testament model of the ancient Israelites was a prominent factor in the evolution of Roman-Byzantine national awareness between the 7th and 13th centuries. The Byzantines' interpretation of the 7th century epic events as manifestations of God's wrath enabled them to incorporate the events into a paradigm which they now embraced: the Old Testament paradigm of the Israelite Elect Nation's complex relationship with God, a cyclic relation of sin, wrath, punishment, repentance and salvation. The Elect Nation concept enabled the Byzantines to express the shift in their collective identity toward a shrunken, yet more clearly defined, national awareness.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Elect Nation Concept as Part of the Byzantine Response to the Calamities of the Seventh Century
- The Institutional Adoption and Use of the Elect Nation Concept, from Heraklios to Leo III
- The Elect Nation Concept as an Identity Element of the Embattled Byzantine Society, Seventh–Ninth Centuries
- The Effect of the Iconoclast Controversy upon the Byzantine Elect Nation Concept
- The Macedonian Dynasty and the Expanding Empire, Ninth–Tenth Centuries
- Two Concepts of Election, Influence and Competition: Byzantium and the Franks during the Crusades
- Summary and Conclusions
- Back Matter
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-36383-1
- OCLC:
- 1030304485
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004363830 DOI
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