LEADER 04301oam 2200745I 450 001 9910965523703321 005 20240430225149.0 010 $a1-317-00135-4 010 $a9786613666574 010 $a1-280-68963-3 010 $a1-315-54801-1 010 $a1-4094-2710-2 010 $a1-317-00136-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315548012 035 $a(CKB)3810000000075878 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4435407 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11488158 035 $a(OCoLC)1018147665 035 $a(OCoLC)948602900 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB143106 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4435407 035 $a(BIP)55202867 035 $a(BIP)33122463 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000075878 100 $a20180706e20162012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aVisions of community in the post-Roman world $ethe West, Byzantium and the Islamic world, 300-1100 /$fedited by Walter Pohl, Clemens Gantner [and] Richard Payne 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $aviii, 575 p 300 $a"First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso. 311 08$a1-4094-2709-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $apt. 1. What difference does ethnicity make? -- pt. 2. Political identities and the integration of communities -- pt. 3. Visions of community, perceptions of difference. 330 $aThis 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 the West, remained a structural element of the imperial periphery in Byzantium, and contributed to the inner dynamic of Islamic states without becoming a resource of political integration. Similarly, the political role of religion also differed between the emerging post-Roman worlds. It is surprising that little systematic research has been done in these fields so far. The 32 contributions to the volume explore this new line of research and look at different aspects of the process, with leading western Medievalists, Byzantinists and Islamicists covering a wide range of pertinent topics. At a closer look, some of the apparent differences between the West and the Islamic world seem less distinctive, and the inner variety of all post-Roman societies becomes more marked. At the same time, new variations in the discourse of community and the practice of power emerge. Anybody interested in the development of the post-Roman Mediterranean, but also in the relationship between the Islamic World and the West, will gain new insights from these studies on the political role of ethnicity and religion in the post-Roman Mediterranean. 606 $aCivilization$xRoman influences 606 $aCommunity life$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aPolitical culture$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aIdentification (Religion)$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aEthnicity$xHistory$yTo 1500 607 $aEurope$xHistory$y476-1492 607 $aEurope$xHistory$yTo 476 607 $aEurope, Western$xHistory 607 $aByzantine Empire$xHistory 607 $aIslamic Empire$xHistory 615 0$aCivilization$xRoman influences. 615 0$aCommunity life$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 615 0$aIdentification (Religion)$xHistory 615 0$aEthnicity$xHistory 676 $a940.12 701 $aGantner$b Clemens$0803044 701 $aPayne$b Richard E.$f1981-$01679768 701 $aPohl$b Walter$f1953-$0223712 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910965523703321 996 $aVisions of community in the post-Roman world$94408548 997 $aUNINA