Inclusion and exclusion in mediterranean christianities, 400-800 / edited by Yaniv Fox and Erica Buchberger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fox, Yaniv, 1975- editor.

Buchberger, Erica, 1979- editor.

Series:

Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages ; Volume 25.

Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages ; Volume 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Marginality, Social.

Marginality, Social--Mediterranean Region--History.

Social integration--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Social integration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages).

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, [2019]

Summary:

"Focused on the medieval Mediteranean (400 - 800 CE), this volume will explore the various ways in which religious groups, intellectual circles, political elites, and societies as a whole chose to define themselves through exclusive and inclusive practices. The fifth to the ninth centuries were a formative period around the Mediterranean, in which new forces were redefining traditional social divisions. This volume will look at these centuries through the lens of inclusion and exclusion as social forces at work on the self, the community, and society as a whole. For late antique and early medieval societies, inclusion and exclusion were the means of redrawing the boundaries of cultural and political discourse, and ultimately, of deciding how resources -- material, spiritual, and intellectual -- were allocated. This is the first of two volumes to explore inclusion and exclusion as processes affecting Mediterranean communities. Contributions to the present volume look at how distinctions were fostered through both space and text, along ethnic and religious lines, and at the level of both ecumenical councils and individual friendships. By examining a wide range of social and cultural phenomena, from historiography and political partisanship to private religious worship and the performance of the feast, the chapters of this volume illustrate the exceptional range of ways that late antique and early medieval people negotiated their place in a changing world, and brought a new one into being."-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Frankish Redaction or Roman Exemplar? Revisions and Interpolations in the Text of the Liber Pontificalis / Carmela Vircillo Franklin

Reading Sin: Textual Exclusion Strategies and Christological Controversies / Dirk Rohmann

Beowulf and the Textual Exclusion of Vikings in the Carolingian world / Shane Bjornlie

Inner Discord and its Discontents in the Fifth-Century Church Histories of Socrates Scholasticus and Sozomen / Yonatan Livneh

Inclusion and Exclusion in the Writings of Anthony of Choziba / Daniel Neary

Constructing a Church of Councils: The Heresy of Conciliar Rejection in Eighth-Century Palestine / Peter Schadler

Persecuting Heretics in Late Antique North Africa: Tolerant Vandals and Intolerant Bishops / Éric Fournier

Ethnicity, Christianity and Groups: Homoian Christians in Ostrogothic Italy and Visigothic Spain / Robin Whelan

Gothic Identity and the 'Othering' of Jews in Seventh-Century Spain / Erica Buchberger

The Pogrom that Time Forgot: The Ecumenical Anti-Jewish Campaign of 632 / Thomas J. MacMaster

Romans and Barbarians at the Table: Banquets and Food as Tools of Distinction according to Sidonius Apollinaris (Fifth-Century Gaul) / Emmanuelle Raga

Inclusion and Exclusion of 'Barbarians' in the Roman Elites of the Fifth Century: The Case of Aspar's Family / Aleksander Paradziński

Conclusion / Chris Wickham.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

2-503-58114-5