The byzantine turks, 1204-1461 / / by Rustam Shukurov.

• Superior document: Medieval Mediterranean : Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1500, Volume 105
• VerfasserIn: Shukurov, Rustam
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Mediterranean ; Volume 105.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (527 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In The Byzantine Turks, 1204–1461 Rustam Shukurov offers an account of the Turkic minority in Late Byzantium including the Nicaean, Palaiologan, and Grand Komnenian empires. The demography of the Byzantine Turks and the legal and cultural aspects of their entrance into Greek society are discussed in detail. Greek and Turkish bilingualism of Byzantine Turks and Tourkophonia among Greeks were distinctive features of Byzantine society of the time. Basing his arguments upon linguistic, social, and cultural evidence found in a wide range of Greek, Latin, and Oriental sources, Rustam Shukurov convincingly demonstrates how Oriental influences on Byzantine life led to crucial transformations in Byzantine mentality, culture, and political life. The study is supplemented with an etymological lexicon of Oriental names and words in Byzantine Greek.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 The Byzantine Classification of the Turks -- 2 Byzantine Onomastics: Problems of Method -- 3 The “Persians” and the “Scythians” -- 4 The Byzantine Turks in the Balkans -- 5 The Noble Lineages -- 6 Assimilation Tools -- 7 Asians in the Byzantine Pontos -- 8 “Turkophonia” in Byzantium -- 9 Etymological Glossary -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index of Greek and Slavonic Names and Terms -- General Index.