Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 413 pages) : illustrations. |
Series |
Edinburgh Byzantine studies |
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Edinburgh Byzantine studies.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 01, 2022). |
Summary |
This collection offers new insights into ideology and identity in the Byzantine world. |
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 |
Local Note |
Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Open Access Books |
Subject |
Ideology -- Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 1500.
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Identity (Psychology) -- Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 1500.
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Byzantine Empire -- Politics and government.
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Philosophy -- Byzantine Empire.
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HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
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Identity (Psychology)
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Ideology
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Philosophy
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Politics and government
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Byzantine Empire
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History.
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Social & cultural history.
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History of ideas.
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Politics & government.
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Politics and Government.
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Chronological Term |
To 1500
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Genre/Form |
History
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Added Author |
Stouraitis, Yannis, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: IDENTITIES AND IDEOLOGIES IN THE MEDIEVAL EAST ROMAN WORLD. [S.l.] : EDINBURGH UNIV PRESS, 2022 1474493629 (OCoLC)1316699128 |
ISBN |
1474493645 electronic book |
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9781474493642 (electronic bk.) |
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9781474493659 (ePub ebook) |
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1474493653 |
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1474493629 |
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9781474493628 |
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