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The Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

This volume is the first to focus solely on how specific individuals and groups in Byzantium and its borderlands were defined and distinguished from other individuals and groups from the mid-fourth to the close of the fifteenth century. It gathers chapters from both established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines across history, art, archaeology, and religion to provide an accurate representation of the state of the field both now and in its immediate future. The handbook is divided into four subtopics that examine concepts of group and specific individual identity which have been chosen to provide methodologically sophisticated and multidisciplinary perspectives on specific categories of group and individual identity. The topics are Imperial Identities; Romanitas in the Late Antique Mediterranean; Macro and Micro Identities: Religious, Regional, and Ethnic Identities, and Internal Others; and Gendered Identities: Literature, Memory, and Self in Early and Middle Byzantium. While no single volume could ever provide a comprehensive vision of identities on the vast variety of peoples within Byzantium over nearly a millennium of its history, this handbook represents a milestone in offering a survey of the vibrant surge of scholarship examining the numerous and oft-times fluctuating codes of identity that shaped and transformed Byzantium and its neighbours during the empire's long life.

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• Navigierbares Inhaltsverzeichnis für direkten Zugriff auf Text und Medien

Autor

Michael Edward Stewart is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History, Classics, and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland, Australia.

David Alan Parnell is an Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Northwest, USA.

Conor Whately is an Associate Professor at the University of Winnipeg, Canada.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429633409
• Artikelnr.: 63635873

Rezensionen

'This volume does sterling work in bringing together the wide variety of difference-markers across the centuries and the many locations that the East Romans called home' - Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Volume 117/1 (2024).

'... the provision of this handbook on identity in Byzantium is an encouraging development for Byzantinists themselves and for scholars in adjacent disciplinary fields ... This volume represents a snapshot of identity in Byzantium as that term was understood by many scholars around the time of the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly as far as the political, ethnic and religious identities of the late antique and Middle Byzantine empires were concerned' - The Byzantine Review.