Visions of Community in the Post-Roman World
The West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, 300-1100
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 the West, remained a structural element of the im…
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Weitere Autoren: Gantner, Clemens (Hrsg.) / Payne, Richard (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-00135-5
- EAN: 9781317001355
- Produktnummer: 20171181
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 588 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 18'427 KB
Über den Autor
Prof. Walter Pohl, University of Vienna, Austria; Mag. Clemens Gantner, Institut fÿr Mittelalterforschung, Ã-sterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Austria; Dr Richard Payne, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA.
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