Examining ideas, beliefs and practices of identification in the medieval East Roman world
- Approaches ideology and identity in the Byzantine world from different perspectives, top-down, bottom-up, and outside-in, and from various disciplinary perspectives including historical, literary, art-historical and archaeological
- Explores what makes discourses ideological by giving them a central function in the promotion of power relations and interests on the macro-level of society as well as on the micro-level of certain social groups
- Explores the interrelation between dominant imperial ideology and collective identification
- Scrutinizes various kinds of identification, local-regional, religious, gender, class, ethno-cultural and regnal-political
- Contributors include Leslie Brubaker, Kostis Smyrlis, Alicia Simpson and Dionysios Sthathakopoulos
This collection offers new insights into ideology and identity in the Byzantine world. The range of international contributors explore the content and role of various ideological discourses in shaping the relationship between the imperial centre and the provinces. Crucially, they examine various kinds of collective identifications and visions of community in the broader Byzantine world within and beyond the political boundaries of the empire.
This interdisciplinary collection includes historical, literary, art-historical and archaeological as well as cross-cultural perspectives along with the exploration of ideas and identifications in cultures on the empire’s periphery.
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IntroductionThe Ideology of Identities and the Identity of IdeologiesJohn Haldon and Yannis Stouraitis
PART I: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches
- Is Byzantinism an Orientalism? Reflections on Byzantium’s Constructed Identities and Debated IdeologiesYannis Stouraitis
- Ruling Elites and the Common People: Some Considerations on Their Diverging Identities and IdeologiesJohannes Koder
- The Dēmosia, the Emperor, and the Common Good: Byzantine Ideas on Taxation and Public Wealth, Eleventh‒Twelfth Century Kostis Smyrlis
- Beyond Religion: Homilies as Conveyor of Political Ideology in Middle ByzantiumTheodora Antonopoulou
- Performing Byzantine Identity: Gender, Status and the Cult of the VirginLeslie Brubaker
- ‘Middle-Class’ Ideology of Education and Language, and the ‘Bookish’ Identity of John TzetzesPanagiotis A. Agapitos
- Byzantium from Below: Rural Identity in Byzantine Palaestina and Arabia, 500–630Daniel Reynolds
- Community Building and Collective Identity in Middle Byzantine AthensFotini Kondyli
PART II: Centre and Periphery
- Provincial Rebellions as an Indicator of Byzantine ‘Identity’ (Tenth–Twelfth Centuries)Jean Claude Cheynet
- Ethnic/Provincial Separatism in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries: A Case of Power Relations or Disparate Identities?Alicia Simpson
- Racism in the Crusades: Ethnic and Religious Identities Between Conquest and NegotiationDionysios Stathakopoulos
- Adjustable Imperial Image-Projection and the Greco-Roman Repertoire: Their Reception Among Outsiders and Longer-Stay VisitorsJonathan Shepard
- Two Paradoxes of Border Identity: Michael VIII Palaiologos and Constantine Doukas Nestongos in the Sultanate of RūmDimitri Korobeinikov
- The Coriander Field: Ideologies and Identities in Post-Roman RavennaFrancesco Borri
- Cultural Policy and Political Ideology: How Imperial Was the Norman Realm of Sicily?Annick Peters-Coustot
- Changes in Identity and Changes of Ideology in the Byzantine World in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century: The Case of SerbiaVlada Stanković
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