Law Power And Imperial Ideology In The Iconoclast Era
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Author | : M. T. G. Humphreys |
Publisher | : Oxford Studies in Byzantium |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198701578 |
Law was central to the ancient Roman conception of themselves and their empire. Yet what happened to Roman law and the position it occupied ideologically during the turbulent years of the Iconoclast era, c.680-850, is seldom explored and little understood. This volume uses Roman law and canon law to chart the various responses to these changing times - especially the rise of Islam, from Justinian II's Christocentric monarchy to the Old Testament-inspired Isauriandynasty - and the transformation from the late antique Roman Empire to medieval Byzantium.
Author | : Michael. Thomas George Humphreys |
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Release | : 2012 |
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Author | : Mike Humphreys |
Publisher | : Brill's Companions to the Chri |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9789004339903 |
"For more than a millennium these ritual damnations of those who argue against the adoration of icons in Christian worship have been proclaimed by the Orthodox Church on the first Sunday of Lent, when the "Feast of Orthodoxy" is celebrated. They are only one part of a document called The Synodikon of Orthodoxy, whose reading is the centre piece of the feast"--
Author | : Edward Cavanagh |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 2020-05-25 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004431241 |
Together, the chapters in Empire and Legal Thought make the case for seeing the history of international legal thought and empires against the background of broad geopolitical, diplomatic, administrative, intellectual, religious, and commercial changes over thousands of years.
Author | : Shay Eshel |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2018-03-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004363831 |
In The Concept of the Elect Nation in Byzantium, Shay Eshel shows how the Old Testament model of the ancient Israelites was a prominent factor in the evolution of Roman-Byzantine national awareness between the 7th and 13th centuries. The Byzantines' interpretation of the 7th century epic events as manifestations of God's wrath enabled them to incorporate the events into a paradigm which they now embraced: the Old Testament paradigm of the Israelite Elect Nation's complex relationship with God, a cyclic relation of sin, wrath, punishment, repentance and salvation. The Elect Nation concept enabled the Byzantines to express the shift in their collective identity toward a shrunken, yet more clearly defined, national awareness.
Author | : Douglas Whalin |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2021-01-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3030609065 |
This book asks how the inhabitants and neighbours of the Eastern Roman Empire understand their identity as Romans in the centuries following the emergence of Islam as a world-religion. Its answers lie in exploring the nature of change and continuity of social structures, self-representation, and boundaries as markers of belonging to the Roman group in the period from circa AD 650 to 850. Early medieval Romanness was integral to the Roman imperial project; its local utility as an identifier was shaped by a given community’s relationship with Constantinople, the capital of the Roman state. This volume argues that there was fundamental continuity of Roman identity from Late Antiquity through these centuries into later periods. Many transformations which are ascribed to the Romans of this era have been subjectively assigned by outsiders, separated by time or space, and are not born out by the sources. This finding dovetails with other recent historical works re-evaluating the early medieval Eastern Roman polity and its ideology.
Author | : Jesse W. Torgerson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2022-07-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004516859 |
The ninth-century Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes is the most influential historical text ever written in medieval Constantinople. Yet modern historians have never explained its popularity and power. This interdisciplinary study draws on new manuscript evidence to finally animate the Chronographia’s promise to show attentive readers the present meaning of the past. Begun by one of the Roman emperor’s most trusted and powerful officials in order to justify a failed revolt, the project became a shockingly ambitious re-writing of time itself—a synthesis of contemporary history, philosophy, and religious practice into a politicized retelling of the human story. Even through radical upheavals of the Byzantine political landscape, the Chronographia’s unique historical vision again and again compelled new readers to chase after the elusive Ends of Time.
Author | : Mike Humphreys |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2021-09-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9004462007 |
Twelve scholars contextualize and critically examine the key debates about the controversy over icons and their veneration that would fundamentally shape Byzantium and Orthodox Christianity.
Author | : Claudia Rapp |
Publisher | : V&R unipress |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2023-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3737013411 |
Mobility and migration were not uncommon in Byzantium, as is true for all societies. Yet, scholarship is only beginning to pay attention to these phenomena. This book presents in English translation a wide array of relevant source texts from ca. 650 to ca. 1450 originally written in medieval Greek: from administrative records, saints’ lives and letters by churchmen to ego-documents by ambassadors and historical narratives by court historians. Each source text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, commentary and further bibliography, thus making the book accessible to both scholars and students and laying the groundwork for future research on the internal dynamics of Byzantine society.
Author | : Catherine Holmes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 2021-08-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1009021907 |
This comparative study explores three key cultural and political spheres – the Latin west, Byzantium and the Islamic world from Central Asia to the Atlantic – roughly from the emergence of Islam to the fall of Constantinople. These spheres drew on a shared pool of late antique Mediterranean culture, philosophy and science, and they had monotheism and historical antecedents in common. Yet where exactly political and spiritual power lay, and how it was exercised, differed. This book focuses on power dynamics and resource-allocation among ruling elites; the legitimisation of power and property with the aid of religion; and on rulers' interactions with local elites and societies. Offering the reader route-maps towards navigating each sphere and grasping the fundamentals of its political culture, this set of parallel studies offers a timely and much needed framework for comparing the societies surrounding the medieval Mediterranean.