Mobility and migration in Byzantium : a sourcebook / Claudia Rapp, Matthew Kinloch, Dirk Krausmüller, Ekaterini Mitsiou, Ilias Nesseris, Christodoulos Papavarnavas, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Giulia Rossetto, Rustam Shukurov, Grigori Simeonov ; with 7 figures.

Format:

Book

Series:

Moving Byzantinum ; volume 1

Moving Byzantinum, 2940-3529 ; volume 1

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Byzantine Empire--Emigration and immigration--History--Sources.

Byzantine Empire.

Migration, Internal--Byzantine Empire--History--Sources.

Migration, Internal.

Physical Description:

500 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Göttingen, Germany : V&R Unipress, [2023]

Language Note:

Medieval Greek texts translated into English.

Summary:

"Mobility and migration were not uncommon in Byzantium, as is true for all societies. Yet, scholarship is only beginning to pay attention to these phenomena. This book presents in English translation a wide array of relevant source texts from ca. 650 to ca. 1450 originally written in medieval Greek: from administrative records, saints' lives and letters by churchmen to ego-documents by ambassadors and historical narratives by court historians. Each source text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, commentary and further bibliography, thus making the book accessible to both scholars and students and laying the groundwork for future research on the internal dynamics of Byzantine society."-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction / Claudia Rapp

Online research tools / Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

Timeline / Ekaterini Mitsiou

Abbreviations

Why moving?

Who moved?

Scales, configurations and persepctives

Modalities of movement

The imaginary

List of source texts by date of composition / Christodoulos Papavarnavas

List of names / Grigori Simeonov

List of places / Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

List of places / Ekaterini Mitsiou

Notes:

"The focus of this book is thus on Byzantine authors and their depiction of mobility and emigration, from the middle of the 7th to the 15th century, across a wide array of genres.... [W]e wish to demonstrate that the themes of mobility and migration are present in Byzantine writing to a far larger extent than might be assumed...."--Introduction, page 13.

"Publications of Vienna University Press are published by V&R unipress"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-458) and index.

Other Format:

PDF version

ISBN:

9783847113416

3847113410

OCLC:

1388618008

Publisher Number:

9783847113416