Research Catalog

Title

Studies on the internal diaspora of the Byzantine Empire / edited by Hélène Ahrweiler and Angeliki E. Laiou.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

• Ahrweiler, Hélène.
• Laiou, Angeliki E.

Description

ix, 203 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• The successful coexistence of different ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups within the same political boundaries depends in part on the resolution of the tension between uniformity and separateness.
• This volume reviews sources of tension and their resolution in a number of cases that may be considered paradigmatic and which include nomads and Muslims, the Serbs, the Armenians, and the population of Byzantine Italy. The mechanisms of integration or acculturation and their various degrees of success are investigated - as are the responses of different groups - in an effort to present some of the complexities of this society, rich in its diversity and impressive in its unicity.

Subjects

• Social integration > Byzantine Empire
• Cultural pluralism > Byzantine Empire
• Byzantine Empire > Ethnic relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Byzantine Concepts of the Foreigner: The Case of the Nomads / Helene Ahrweiler -- The Imperial Edge: Italo-Byzantine Identity, Movement and Integration, A.D. 650-950 / Michael McCormick -- The Problem of Armenian Integration into the Byzantine Empire / Nina G. Garsoian -- The Muslim Presence in Constantinople, 9th-15th Centuries: Some Preliminary Observations / Stephen W. Reinert -- The Settlement of Serbs in Macedonia in the Era of Dusan's Conquests / Mark Bartusis -- Institutional Mechanisms of Integration / Angeliki E. Laiou.

ISBN

0884022471

LCCN

96053525

OCLC

• 36126738
• ocm36126738
• SCSB-14298271

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries