Identities and ideologies in the medieval East Roman world /
This collection offers new insights into ideology and identity in the Byzantine world.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Edinburgh Byzantine studies.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
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. Is Byzantinism an orientalism? Reflections on Byzantium's constructed identities and debated ideologies
- Ruling elites and the common people : some considerations on their diverging identities and ideologies
- The Dēmosia, the Emperor and the common good : Byzantine ideas on taxation and public wealth, eleventh-twelfth century
- Beyond religion : homilies as conveyors of political ideology in middle Byzantium
- Performing Byzantine identity : gender, status and the cult of the Virgin
- 'Middle-class' ideology of education and language, and the 'bookish' identity of John Tzetzes
- Byzantium from below : rural identity in Byzantine Arabia and Palaestina, 500-630
- Community-building and collective identity in middle Byzantine Athens
- Part II. Centre and periphery. Provincial rebellions as an indicator of Byzantine 'identity' (tenth-twelfth centuries)
- Provincial separatism in the late twelfth century : a case of power relations or disparate identities?
- Irrevocable blood : violence and collective identity formation in the late twelfth century
- Adjustable imperial image-projection and the Greco-Roman repertoire : their reception among outsiders and longer-stay visitors
- Two paradoxes of border identity : Michael VIII Palaiologos and Constantine Doukas Nestongos in the Sultanate of Rūm
- The coriander field : ideologies and identities in post-Roman Ravenna
- Cultural policy and political ideology : how imperial was the Norman realm of Sicily?
- Changes in identity and ideology in the Byzantine world in the second half of the twelfth century : the case of Serbia
- Index