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"Empires are not an under-researched topic. Recently, there has been a veritable surge in comparative and conceptual studies, not least of pre-modern empires. The distant past can tell us much about the fates of empires that may still be relevant today, and contemporary historians as well as th...

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Main Authors: Pohl, Walter, 1953- (Author, Editor), Kramer, Rutger (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Series:Oxford studies in early empires.
Subjects:
Imperialism > History > To 1500.
Civilization, Medieval.
Middle Ages.
Ethnicity > History > To 1500.
East and West.
Islamic Empire > History.
Civilisation médiévale.
Moyen Âge.
Civilization, Medieval
East and West
Ethnicity
Imperialism
Middle Ages
Islamic Empire
To 1500
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Empires and communities in the post-Roman and Islamic world / Walter Pohl and Rutger Kramer
  • The emergence of new polities in the break-up of the Abbasid Caliphate / Hugh Kennedy
  • The emergence of new polities in the break-up of the Western Roman Empire / Walter Pohl
  • Comparative perspectives: differences between the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate / Walter Pohl and Hugh Kennedy
  • Fragmentation and integration: a response to the contributions by Hugh Kennedy and Walter Pohl / Peter Webb
  • Historicizing resilience: the paradox of the Medieval East Roman state; collapse, adaptation, and survival / John Haldon
  • Processions, power, and community identity: east and west / Leslie Brubaker and Chris Wickham
  • Death of a patriarch: the murder of Yūḥannā ibn Jamī (d. 966) and the question of 'Melkite' identity in Early Islamic Palestine / Daniel Reynolds
  • Diversity and convergence: the accommodation of ethnic and legal pluralism in the Carolingian Empire / Stefan Esders and Helmut Reimitz
  • Franks, Romans, and countrymen: Carolingian interests, local identities, and the conquest of Aquitaine / Rutger Kramer
  • From the sublime to the ridiculous: Yemeni Arab identity in Abbasid Iraq (including appendix: translations of selected poems) / Peter Webb
  • Loyal and knowledgeable supporters: integrating Egyptian elites in early Islamic Egypt / Petra M. Sijpesteijn
  • Concluding thoughts: empires and communities / Chris Wickham.