Studies on the Internal Diaspora of the Byzantine Empire
Studies on the Internal Diaspora of the Byzantine Empire

Author: Hélène Ahrweiler

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780884022473

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The successful coexistence of different ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups within the same political boundaries depends in part on the resolution of the tension between uniformity and separateness. This volume reviews sources of tension and their resolution in a number of cases that may be considered paradigmatic and which include nomads and Muslims, the Serbs, the Armenians, and the population of Byzantine Italy. The mechanisms of integration or acculturation and their various degrees of success are investigated - as are the responses of different groups - in an effort to present some of the complexities of this society, rich in its diversity and impressive in its unicity.

Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond
Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond

Author: Teresa Shawcross

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-10-04

Total Pages: 745

ISBN-13: 1108304907

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Offering a comprehensive introduction to the history of books, readers and reading in the Byzantine Empire and its sphere of influence, this volume addresses a paradox. Advanced literacy was rare among imperial citizens, being restricted by gender and class. Yet the state's economic, religious and political institutions insisted on the fundamental importance of the written record. Starting from the materiality of codices, documents and inscriptions, the volume's contributors draw attention to the evidence for a range of interactions with texts. They examine the role of authors, compilers and scribes. They look at practices such as the close perusal of texts in order to produce excerpts, notes, commentaries and editions. But they also analyse the social implications of the constant intersection of writing with both image and speech. Showcasing current methodological approaches, this collection of essays aims to place a discussion of Byzantium within the mainstream of medieval textual studies.

1998
1998

Author: Massimo Mastrogregori

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-05-08

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 311096743X

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Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.

Byzantium's Balkan Frontier
Byzantium's Balkan Frontier

Author: Paul Stephenson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-06-29

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 0521770173

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Byzantium's Balkan Frontier is the first narrative history in English of the northern Balkans in the tenth to twelfth centuries. Where previous histories have been concerned principally with the medieval history of distinct and autonomous Balkan nations, this study regards Byzantine political authority as a unifying factor in the various lands which formed the empire's frontier in the north and west. It takes as its central concern Byzantine relations with all Slavic and non-Slavic peoples - including the Serbs, Croats, Bulgarians and Hungarians - in and beyond the Balkan Peninsula, and explores in detail imperial responses, first to the migrations of nomadic peoples, and subsequently to the expansion of Latin Christendom. It also examines the changing conception of the frontier in Byzantine thought and literature through the middle Byzantine period.

Byzantium and the Crusades
Byzantium and the Crusades

Author: Jonathan Harris

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2006-08-15

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781852855017

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The first great city to which the Crusaders came in 1089 was not Jerusalem but Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Almost as much as Jerusalem itself, Constantinople was the key to the foundation, survival and ultimate eclipse of the crusading kingdom.

The Paulicians
The Paulicians

Author: Carl Dixon

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-05-16

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9004517081

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In a searching challenge to the paradigm of medieval Christian dualism, this study reenvisions the Paulicians as largely conventional Christians engendered by complex socio-religious forces in the borderlands of Armenia and Asia Minor.

Byzantium, Its Neighbours and Its Cultures
Byzantium, Its Neighbours and Its Cultures

Author: Danijel Dzino

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9004344918

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Byzantium was one of the longest-lasting empires in history. Throughout the millennium of its existence, the empire showed its capability to change and develop under very different historical circumstances. This remarkable resilience would have been impossible to achieve without the formation of a lasting imperial culture and a strong imperial ideological infrastructure. Imperial culture and ideology required, among other things, to sort out who was ʻinsiderʼ and who was ʻoutsiderʼ and develop ways to define and describe ones neighbours and interact with them. There is an indefinite number of possibilities for the exploration of relationships between Byzantium and its neighbours. The essays in this collection focus on several interconnected clusters of topics and shared research interests, such as the place of neighbours in the context of the empire and imperial ideology, the transfer of knowledge with neighbours, the Byzantine perception of their neighbours and the political relationship and/or the conflict with neighbours.

The Horoscope of Emperor Baldwin II
The Horoscope of Emperor Baldwin II

Author: Filip Van Tricht

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-01

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9004383182

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In The Horoscope of Emperor Baldwin II Filip Van Tricht presents a microstudy of political, social and cultural life in Latin-Byzantine Constantinople and Romania. A ‘new’ set of sources is used to question the traditionally negative view of the Byzantine capital under Latin rule. Combined with an analysis of other underused historical materials, mid-13th century Latin-Byzantine Constantinople is redefined as a city that—in spite of the Western conquest during the Fourth Crusade—remained dynamic, with vibrant internal and international politics, and with interesting developments in the social, religious, artistic, and scientific spheres. Against the background of a shared Roman past the metropolis on the Bosporus became a fascinating laboratory of Latin-Byzantine interaction.

The Economic History of European Jews
The Economic History of European Jews

Author: Michael Toch

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-09-28

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9004235345

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The Economic History of European Jews offers a radical revision of demographics and economics. It explains how the presence of Jews was a limited one and their trade was just that, trade by Jews, not “Jewish Trade”.