Revisiting the Byzantine commonwealth : nodes, networks, and spheres / edited by Jonathan Shepard, Peter Frankopan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shepard, Jonathan, editor.

Frankopan, Peter, editor.

Series:

Oxford studies in Byzantium

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byzantine Empire.

Byzantine Empire--Civilization.

Byzantine Empire--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]

System Details:

text file ǂ2 rdaft

Summary:

'Revisiting the Byzantine Commonwealth' addresses a broad range of questions about the political, social, and cultural history of Byzantium. The volume aims to foster a more rounded approach to the phenomenon of Byzantium, and a better understanding of how and why it impinges on so many Eurasian cultures and polities to this day.

Contents:

1. The Byzantine phenomenon / Jonathan Shepard

2. Byzantine globalism: The power of attraction / Paul Magdalino

3. Commonwealth, empire, or nation-state? / Averil Cameron

4. What did it mean to be ‘Roman’ in Byzantium? / Yannis Stouraitis

5. Commonwealth of elect nations: A contradiction in terms? / Shay Eshel

6. Identity through language in the Byzantine commonwealth / Juan Signes Codoñer

7. Keeping up appearances: Byzantine perspectives of ‘legality’ and the Italians / Daphne Penna

8. Laying down the law in Byzantium: Law-making and adjudication / Bernard Stolte

9. Identity, law, and beards: Judicial shaving in Byzantium, c.600–900 / Mike Humphreys

10. A taktikal retreat? Middle Byzantine provincial administration revisited / Rosemary Morris

11. Byzantium’s empires of gold / Peter Sarris

12. The patriarchate of Constantinople and its register: Documents, agents, and interconnectivity / Ekaterini Mitsiou

13. The Byzantine visual commonwealth / Cecily J Hilsdale

14. Attracting elites from the empire’s periphery / Jean-Claude Cheynet

15. Byzantine ‘Zomia’? Spaces of refusal between centre and periphery, 500–1200 / Hugh Jeffery and Nicholas S M Matheou

16. ‘As though from India itself’: Stories of Byzantium / Marc D Lauxtermann

17. Byzantino-Turkish diplomacy and the loss of western Asia Minor, 1260–1335 / Alexander Beihammer

18. Agents of commercial and diplomatic exchange: Amalfitans in Byzantium in the tenth to twelfth centuries / Liliana Simeonova

19. Imagining Byzantium in Norse romance / Roland Scheel

20. Frankish commonwealth or Imperium Romanum? The empire in the West, 750–1500 / Len Scales

21. Parallel spheres: Monasticism East and West c.1000–1500 / Andrew Jotischky

22. Alignment, entanglement, and antagonism: Byzantium and the West / Jonathan Shepard

23. The Byzantinization of the Roman Church under Innocent II (1130–1143) / Teresa Shawcross

24. Byzantium and the Crusades / Peter Frankopan

25. Byzantium, Rum, and the bilad al-Islam / A C S Peacock

26. Looking East: Early Christian art beyond Christian hegemony / Jaś Elsner

27. Melkite translations of Byzantine law-books into Arabic / Johannes Pahlitzsch

28. Art and eschatological empire between the Islamic East, Byzantium, and Latin Christendom: Sultan Baybars I’s mausoleum in Damascus / Lucy-Anne Hunt

29. Romans, Egyptians, and the second Arab siege of Constantinople (717/18) / Phil Booth

30. The Byzantine commonwealth: A view from the East / Tim Greenwood

31. Reclaiming the Balkans: A study in Byzantine soft power / Vlada Stanković

32. Bulgaria—Prime candidate for Byzantine commonwealth membership? / Angel Nikolov

33. A virtual empire? Byzantium and the eastern Adriatic coast / Neven Budak

34. Before Byzance après Byzance: The making of Wallachia and the Byzantine political toolkit / Marian Coman

35. Languages of art / Georgi R Parpulov

36. Finding the frontiers of the commonwealth / Marcin Wołoszyn

37. On Rus and the commonwealth: Old questions in the light of some new studies / Simon Franklin

38. Early Rus political culture versus Byzantine law: Reconciling two contradictory ideologies / Kirill A Maksimovič

39. The reluctant empire / Sergey A Ivanov

40. Byzantine literature in the Slav world: Serendipity or intention? / Elizabeth Jeffreys†

41. Non-elite church contacts between Byzantium and Rus in the Palaiologan period / Monica White

42. The typology of the nomad state in Western Eurasia / James Howard-Johnston

43. From war to peace in medieval steppe empires / Nicola Di Cosmo

44. Boundaries and bonds: Khazaria and the commonwealth / Nick Evans

45. Bargaining with Byzantium: The North Caucasian kingdom of Alania and the empire / John Latham-Sprinkle

46. Triangles into spheres: Trade, faith, and the Palaiologan balancing act after 1261 / Angus Russell

47. Epilogue / Peter Frankopan and Jonathan Shepard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 18, 2025).

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ISBN:

9780191896361

0191896365

OCLC:

1528562601

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