The Routledge handbook on identity in Byzantium / edited by Michael Edward Stewart, David Alan Parnell, Conor Whately.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stewart, Michael Edward, editor.

Parnell, David Alan, editor.

Whately, Conor, editor.

Series:

Routledge history handbooks.

The Routledge History Handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology)--Byzantine Empire.

Identity (Psychology).

Ethnology--Byzantine Empire.

Ethnology.

Group identity--Byzantine Empire.

Group identity.

Byzantine Empire--Civilization.

Byzantine Empire.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (469 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2022.

Summary:

"This volume is the first to focus solely on how specific individuals and groups in Byzantium and its borderlands were defined and distinguished from other individuals and groups from the mid-fourth to the close of the fifteenth century. It gathers chapters from both established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines across history, art, archaeology, and religion to provide an accurate representation of the state of the field both now and in its immediate future. The handbook is divided into four subtopics that examine concepts of group and specific individual identity which have been chosen to provide methodologically sophisticated and multidisciplinary perspectives on specific categories of group and individual identity. The topics are Imperial Identities; Romanitas in the late antique Mediterranean; Macro and Micro Identities: Religious, Regional, and Ethnic Identities, and Internal Others; Gendered Identities: Literature, Memory, and Self in Early & Middle Byzantium. While no single volume could ever provide a comprehensive vision of identities on the vast variety of peoples within Byzantium over nearly a millennium of its history, this handbook represents a milestone in offering a survey of the vibrant surge of scholarship examining the numerous and oft-times fluctuating codes of identity that shaped and transformed Byzantium and its neighbours during the empire's long life"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

List of figures

List of contributors

List of abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction "Finding Byzantium" / Michael Edward Stewart (University of Queensland), David Alan Parnell (Indiana University Northwest), and Conor Whately (University of Winnipeg)

I. Imperial identities

II. Romanitas in the Late Antique Mediterranean

III. Macro and micro identities: religious, regional, and ethnic identities, and internal others

IV. Gendered identities: literature, memory, and self in Early & Middle Byzantium.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-63340-8

0-429-03137-8

9780429031373

OCLC:

1273728076