Identities and ideologies in the medieval East Roman world / edited by Yannis Stouraitis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stouraitis, Yannis, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh Byzantine studies.

Edinburgh Byzantine studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ideology--Byzantine Empire--History--To 1500.

Identity (Psychology)--Byzantine Empire--History--To 1500.

Philosophy--Byzantine Empire.

Byzantine Empire--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 413 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This collection offers new insights into ideology and identity in the Byzantine world. The range of international contributors explore the content and role of various ideological discourses in shaping the relationship between the imperial centre and the provinces. Crucially, they examine various kinds of collective identifications and visions of community in the broader Byzantine world within and beyond the political boundaries of the empire. This interdisciplinary collection includes historical, literary, art-historical and archaeological as well as cross-cultural perspectives along with the exploration of ideas and identifications in cultures on the empire's periphery.

Contents:

Part I: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches. Is Byzantinism an Orientalism? Reflections on Byzantium's Constructed Identities and Debated Ideologies / Yannis Stouraitis ; Ruling Elites and the Common People: Some Considerations on Their Diverging Identities and Ideologies / Johannes Koder ; The Dēmosia, the Emperor, and the Common Good: Byzantine Ideas on Taxation and Public Wealth, Eleventh-Twelfth Century / Kostis Smyrlis ; Beyond Religion: Homilies as Conveyor of Political Ideology in Middle Byzantium / Theodora Antonopoulou ; Performing Byzantine Identity: Gender, Status and the Cult of the Virgin / Leslie Brubaker ; 'Middle-Class' Ideology of Education and Language, and the 'Bookish' Identity of John Tzetzes / Panagiotis A. Agapitos ; Byzantium from Below: Rural Identity in Byzantine Arabia and Palaestina, 500-630 / Daniel Reynolds ; Community Building and Collective Identity in Middle Byzantine Athens / Fotini Kondyli

Part II: Centre and Periphery. Provincial Rebellions as an Indicator of Byzantine 'Identity' (Tenth-Twelfth Centuries) / Jean Claude Cheynet ; Provincial Separatism in the Late Twelfth Century: A Case of Power Relations or Disparate Identities? / Alicia Simpson ; Irrevocable Blood: Violence and Collective Identity Formation in the Late Twelfth Century / Dionysios Stathakopoulos ; Adjustable Imperial Image-Projection and the Greco-Roman Repertoire: Their Reception Among Outsiders and Longer-Stay Visitors / Jonathan Shepard ; Two Paradoxes of Border Identity: Michael VIII Palaiologos and Constantine Doukas Nestongos in the Sultanate of Rūm / Dimitri Korobeinikov ; The Coriander Field: Ideologies and Identities in Post-Roman Ravenna / Francesco Borri ; Cultural Policy and Political Ideology: How Imperial Was the Norman Realm of Sicily? / Annick Peters-Coustot ; Changes in Identity and Ideology in the Byzantine World in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century: The Case of Serbia / Vlada Stanković.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Jan 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474493659

1474493653

9781474493642

1474493645

OCLC:

1352464454