The Routledge handbook on identity in Byzantium. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook on identity in Byzantium; Identity in Byzantium
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael Edward Stewart, David Alan Parnell, Conor Whately.
• Editors: Stewart, Michael Edward; Parnell, David Alan; Whately, Conor
• Contents: Introduction: Michael Edward Stewart (University of Queensland), David Alan Parnell (Indiana University Northwest), and Conor Whately (University of Winnipeg): "Finding Byzantium." I. Imperial Identities 2. Sviatoslav Dmitriev (Ball State University): "The Political Philosophy of John Lydus and Early Byzantine Imperial Identity." 3. Nicola Rose Ernst (University of Exeter): "Constantinian Imperial Identities: The Julianic Pushback." 4. Christopher W. Malone (University of Sydney): "Soldier-Emperors and the Motif of Imperial Violence in the Byzantine Empire." 5. Anna Muthesius (University of Cambridge): "Imperial Identity: Byzantine Silks, Art, Autocracy, Theocracy, and the Image of Basileia." II. Romanitas in the Late Antique Mediterranean 6. Michael Edward Stewart (University of Queensland): "To Triumph Forever: Romans & Barbarians in early Byzantium." 7. Robert Kasperski (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences): "Some Considerations on Barbarian Ethnicity in Late Antiquity." 8. Rafał Kosiński (Bialystok University): "The Elements of Identity as Exemplified by Four Late-Antique Authors." 9. Jonathan J. Arnold (University of Tulsa): "Manly Goths, Unmanly Romans: Ideologies of Gender in Ostrogothic Italy." 10. Andy Merrills (University of Leicester): "Contested Identities in Byzantine North Africa." 11. Christopher Heath (Manchester Metropolitan University): "Contested Identities in the Byzantine West, c.540-c.895." III. Macro and Micro Identities: Religious, Regional, and Ethnic Identities, and Internal Others 12. Joseph Western (College of the Ozarks): "Overlapping Identities and Individual Agency in Byzantine Southern Italy." 13. Ryan W. Strickler (The Australian National University): "Dehumanization, Apocalypticism, and Anti-Judaism: Reflections on Identity Formation in Seventh-Century Byzantium." 14. Anthony Kaldellis (The Ohio State University): "Provincial Identities in Byzantium." 15. Nathan Leidholm (Bilkent University): "Parents and Children, Servants and Masters: Slaves, Freedmen, and the Family in Byzantium." 16. Cahit Mete Oguz (Simon Fraser University): "Middle Byzantine Historians and the Dichotomy of Peasant Identity." 17. Ioannis Smarnakis (University of the Aegean): "Political Power, Space and Identities in the State of Epiros (1205-1318)." 18. Anne-Laurence Caudano (University of Winnipeg): "Moses’ Account is Simpler, More Concise, and More Effective: Orthodoxy, Heresy, and Cosmographic Identity in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries." IV. Gendered Identities: Literature, Memory, and Self in Early & Middle Byzantium 19. Grace Stafford (University of Oxford): "Privilege, Pleasure, Performance: Reading Female Nudity in Late Antique Art." 20. David Alan Parnell (Indiana University Northwest): "A War of Words on the Place of Military Wives in the Sixth-Century Roman Army." 21. Leonora Neville (University of Wisconsin): "Reading Greco-Roman Gender Ideals in Byzantium: Classical Heroes and Eastern Roman Gender." 22. Penelope Buckley (University of Melbourne): "Modes of Identity: Attaleiates, Komnene, and Psellos." 23. Adam J. Goldwyn (North Dakota State University): "Byzantium in the American Alt-Right Imagination: Paradigms of the Medieval Greek Past among Men’s Rights Activists and White Supremacists."
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 949.502; Identity (Psychology) -- Byzantine Empire; Ethnology -- Byzantine Empire; Group identity -- Byzantine Empire; Cultural awareness -- Byzantine Empire; Gender identity -- Byzantine Empire; Byzantine Empire -- Civilization
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429631917; 9780429633409; 9780429031373
• Related ISBNs: 9780367143411
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.