Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910888083303321
• Autore: Stouraitis Yannis
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2022; ©2022
• ISBN: 9781474493659; 1474493653; 9781474493642; 1474493645
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (433 pages)
• Collana: Edinburgh Byzantine Studies
• Disciplina: 320.5094950902
• Soggetti: Identity (Psychology) - Byzantine Empire - History - To 1500; Ideology - Byzantine Empire - History - To 1500; Philosophy - Byzantine Empire; History; Byzantine Empire Politics and government; Empire byzantin Politique et gouvernement; Byzantine Empire
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- 1 Is Byzantinism an Orientalism? Reflections on Byzantium’s Constructed Identities and Debated Ideologies -- 2 Ruling Elites and the Common People: Some Considerations on Their Diverging Identities and Ideologies -- 3 The Dēmosia, the Emperor and the Common Good: Byzantine Ideas on Taxation and Public Wealth, Eleventh–Twelfth Century -- 4 Beyond Religion: Homilies as Conveyors of Political Ideology in Middle Byzantium -- 5 Performing Byzantine Identity: Gender, Status and the Cult of the Virgin -- 6 ‘Middle-Class’ Ideology of Education and Language, and the ‘Bookish’ Identity of John Tzetzes -- 7 Byzantium from Below: Rural Identity in Byzantine Arabia and ; Palaestina, 500–630 -- 8 Community-Building and Collective Identity in Middle Byzantine Athens -- Part II Centre and Periphery -- 9 Provincial Rebellions as an Indicator of Byzantine ‘Identity’ (Tenth–Twelfth Centuries) -- 10 Provincial Separatism in the Late Twelfth Century: A Case of Power Relations or Disparate Identities? -- 11 Irrevocable Blood: Violence and Collective Identity Formation in the Late Twelfth Century -- 12 Adjustable Imperial Image-Projection and the Greco-Roman Repertoire: Their Reception among Outsiders and Longer-Stay Visitors -- 13 Two Paradoxes of Border Identity: Michael VIII Palaiologos and Constantine Doukas Nestongos in the Sultanate of Rūm -- 14 The Coriander Field: Ideologies and Identities in Post-Roman Ravenna -- 15 Cultural Policy and Political Ideology: How Imperial was the Norman Realm of Sicily? -- 16 Changes in Identity and Ideology in the Byzantine World in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century: The Case of Serbia -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Examining ideas, beliefs and practices of identification in the medieval East Roman world.