Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World /

Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World / / ed. by Yannis Stouraitis.

Examining ideas, beliefs and practices of identification in the medieval East Roman world Approaches ideology and identity in the Byzantine world from different perspectives, top-down, bottom-up, and outside-in, and from various disciplinary perspectives including historical, literary, art-historica...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
MitwirkendeR:
Agapitos, Panagiotis A.,
Antonopoulou, Theodora,
Borri, Francesco,
Brubaker, Leslie,
Cheynet, Jean-Claude,
HerausgeberIn:
Stouraitis, Yannis,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Byzantine Studies : EBS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.) :; 27 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction The Ideology of Identities and the Identity of Ideologies
  • Part I Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches
  • 1 Is Byzantinism an Orientalism? Reflections on Byzantium’s Constructed Identities and Debated Ideologies
  • 2 Ruling Elites and the Common People: Some Considerations on Their Diverging Identities and Ideologies
  • 3 The Dēmosia, the Emperor and the Common Good: Byzantine Ideas on Taxation and Public Wealth, Eleventh–Twelfth Century
  • 4 Beyond Religion: Homilies as Conveyors of Political Ideology in Middle Byzantium
  • 5 Performing Byzantine Identity: Gender, Status and the Cult of the Virgin
  • 6 ‘Middle-Class’ Ideology of Education and Language, and the ‘Bookish’ Identity of John Tzetzes
  • 7 Byzantium from Below: Rural Identity in Byzantine Arabia and Palaestina, 500–630
  • 8 Community-Building and Collective Identity in Middle Byzantine Athens
  • Part II Centre and Periphery
  • 9 Provincial Rebellions as an Indicator of Byzantine ‘Identity’ (Tenth–Twelfth Centuries)
  • 10 Provincial Separatism in the Late Twelfth Century: A Case of Power Relations or Disparate Identities?
  • 11 Irrevocable Blood: Violence and Collective Identity Formation in the Late Twelfth Century
  • 12 Adjustable Imperial Image-Projection and the Greco-Roman Repertoire: Their Reception among Outsiders and Longer-Stay Visitors
  • 13 Two Paradoxes of Border Identity: Michael VIII Palaiologos and Constantine Doukas Nestongos in the Sultanate of Rūm
  • 14 The Coriander Field: Ideologies and Identities in Post-Roman Ravenna
  • 15 Cultural Policy and Political Ideology: How Imperial was the Norman Realm of Sicily?
  • 16 Changes in Identity and Ideology in the Byzantine World in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century: The Case of Serbia
  • Index

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