Format:
Online-Ressource (588 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1280689633
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9781409427094
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9781280689635
Content:
This volume looks at 'visions of community' in a comparative perspective, from Late Antiquity to the dawning of the age of crusades. It addresses the question of why and how distinctive new political cultures developed after the disintegration of the Roman World, and to what degree their differences had already emerged in the first post-Roman centuries. The Latin West, Orthodox Byzantium and its Slavic periphery, and the Islamic world each retained different parts of the Graeco-Roman heritage, while introducing new elements. For instance, ethnicity became a legitimizing element of rulership in
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: Ethnicity, Religion and Empire; Part I: What Difference Does Ethnicity Make?; Tribe and State: Social Anthropological Approaches; 1 Envisioning Medieval Communities in Asia: Remarks on Ethnicity, Tribalism and Faith; 2 Tribal Mobility and Religious Fixation: Remarks on Territorial Transformation and Identity in Imperial and Early Post-Imperial Tibet; Identity and Difference in the Roman World; Ethnic Identities in the Early Medieval West; 6 How Many Peoples Are (in) a People?
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7 The Providential Past: Visions of Frankish Identity in the Early Medieval History of Gregory of Tours' Historiae (sixth-ninth century)8 Inventing Wales; Early Islamic Identities; 9 Religious Communities in the Early Islamic World; 10 Seventh-Century Identities: The Case of North Africa; Christian Identities in the Middle East; 11 Ethnicity, Ethnogenesis and the Identity of Syriac Orthodox Christians; 12 Avoiding Ethnicity: Uses of the Ancient Past in Late Sasanian Northern Mesopotamia; 13 Truth and Lies, Ceremonial and Art: Issues of Nationality in Medieval Armenia
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14 Roman Identity in a Border Region: Evagrius and the Defence of the Roman Empire15 Holy Land and Sacred History: A View from Early Ethiopia; Part II: Political Identities and the Integration of Communities; Regional and Imperial Identites in the East; 16 Anastasios und die ‚Geschichte' der Isaurier; 17 Zur Stellung von ethnischen und religiösen Minderheiten in Byzanz: Armenier, Muslime und Paulikianer; 18 Regional Identities and Military Power: Byzantium and Islam ca. 600-750; The Challenge of Difference: Early Medieval Christian Europe
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19 'Faithful believers': Oaths of Allegiance in Post-Roman Societies as Evidence for Eastern and Western 'Visions of Community'20 „Einheit" versus „Fraktionierung": Zur symbolischen und institutionellen Integration des Frankenreichs im 8./9. Jahrhundert; 21 Diaspora Jewish Communities in Early Medieval Europe: Structural Conditions for Survival and Expansion; 22 New Visions of Community in Ninth-Century Rome: The Impact of the Saracen Threat on the Papal World View; Part III: Visions of Community, Perceptions of Difference; Islamic Views
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23 Arabic-Islamic Historiographers on the Emergence of Latin-Christian Europe24 The Vikings in the South through Arab Eyes; 25 Identities of the Ṣaqāliba and the Rūsiyya in Early Arabic Sources; Byzantine Views; 26 Gog, Magog und die Hunnen: Anmerkungen zur eschatologischen „Ethnographie" der Völkerwanderungszeit; 27 Strategies of Identification and Distinction in the Byzantine Discourse on the Seljuk Turks; Western Views; 28 'A wild man, whose hand will be against all': Saracens and Ishmaelites in Latin Ethnographical Traditions, from Jerome to Bede; 29 Where the Wild Things Are; Conclusions
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Conclusions
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
9781409427100
Additional Edition:
128068724X
Additional Edition:
Print version Visions of Community in the Post-Roman World The West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, 300-1100
Language:
English
Keywords:
Spätantike
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Mittelmeerraum
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Islam
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Byzantinisches Reich
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Geschichte 300-1100
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