Political culture in the Latin west, Byzantium and the Islamic world, c.700-c.1500: a framework for comparing three spheres

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,...

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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Holmes, Catherine 1968- (HerausgeberIn), Shepard, Jonathan 1948- (HerausgeberIn), Steenbergen, Jo van 1975- (HerausgeberIn), Weiler, Björn K. U. 1969- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2021
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009022231
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009022231
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009022231
Zusammenfassung: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
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Political culture in three spheres : introduction / Catherine Holmes, Jonathan Shepard, Jo Van Steenbergen and Björn Weiler -- Reflections on political culture in three spheres / R. Stephen Humphreys -- Comparing the three spheres through the prism of the sources / Jonathan Shepard -- The Latin west : sources / Bj{uml}orn Weiler and Jonathan Shepard -- Byzantium : sources / Jonathan Shepard -- The Islamic world : sources / Jo Van Steenbergen and Jonathan Shepard -- The Latin west : pluralism in the shadow of the past / Len Scales -- Byzantium : one or many? / Catherine Holmes -- The Islamic world : conquest, migration and accommodating diversity / Andrew Marsham, Eric Hanne and Jo Van Steenbergen -- The Latin west : expectations and legitimisation / Bj{uml}orn Weiler -- Byzantium : imperial order, Constantinopolitan ceremonial and pyramids of power / Judith Herrin -- The Islamic world : community, leadership and contested patterns of continuity / Andrew Marsham, Eric Hanne and Jo Van Steenbergen -- The Latin west : multiple elites and overlapping jurisdictions / Daniel Power -- Byzantium : 'To have and to hold' - the acquisition and maintenance of elite power / Rosemary Morris -- The Islamic world : nomads, urban elites and courts in competition / Andrew Marsham, Eric Hanne and Jo Van Steenbergen -- Comparisons, connections and conclusions / Jonathan Shepard
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xxxi, 550 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009022231
DOI:10.1017/9781009022231