The Byzantine Republic : : People and Power in New Rome / / Anthony Kaldellis.
Although Byzantium is known to history as the Eastern Roman Empire, scholars have long claimed that this Greek Christian theocracy bore little resemblance to Rome. Here, in a revolutionary model of Byzantine politics and society, Anthony Kaldellis reconnects Byzantium to its Roman roots, arguing tha...
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Kaldellis, Anthony, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Byzantine Republic : People and Power in New Rome / Anthony Kaldellis. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (274 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introducing the Byzantine Republic -- 2. The Emperor in the Republic -- 3. Extralegal Authority in a Lawful Polity -- 4. The Sovereignty of the People in Theory -- 5. The Sovereignty of the People in Practice -- 6. The Secular Republic and the Theocratic "Imperial Idea" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Although Byzantium is known to history as the Eastern Roman Empire, scholars have long claimed that this Greek Christian theocracy bore little resemblance to Rome. Here, in a revolutionary model of Byzantine politics and society, Anthony Kaldellis reconnects Byzantium to its Roman roots, arguing that from the fifth to the twelfth centuries CE the Eastern Roman Empire was essentially a republic, with power exercised on behalf of the people and sometimes by them too. The Byzantine Republic recovers for the historical record a less autocratic, more populist Byzantium whose Greek-speaking citizens considered themselves as fully Roman as their Latin-speaking "ancestors." Kaldellis shows that the idea of Byzantium as a rigid imperial theocracy is a misleading construct of Western historians since the Enlightenment. With court proclamations often draped in Christian rhetoric, the notion of divine kingship emerged as a way to disguise the inherent vulnerability of each regime. The legitimacy of the emperors was not predicated on an absolute right to the throne but on the popularity of individual emperors, whose grip on power was tenuous despite the stability of the imperial institution itself. Kaldellis examines the overlooked Byzantine concept of the polity, along with the complex relationship of emperors to the law and the ways they bolstered their popular acceptance and avoided challenges. The rebellions that periodically rocked the empire were not aberrations, he shows, but an essential part of the functioning of the republican monarchy. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Authority History To 1500. Legitimacy of governments Byzantine Empire. Monarchy Byzantine Empire. Power (Social sciences) Byzantine Empire. Republicanism Byzantine Empire. HISTORY / Medieval. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 9783110439687 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2015 9783110438635 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 print 9780674365407 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674735866 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674735866 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674735866.jpg |
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