Roman Identity From The Arab Conquests To The Triumph Of Orthodoxy

Author : Douglas Whalin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 3030609073

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Roman Identity from the Arab Conquests to the Triumph of Orthodoxy by Douglas Whalin Pdf

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. Douglas Whalin is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Christian Oriental Research (ICOR) at the Catholic University of America. He earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge, and was a DFG stipendiary fellow with the Center for Advanced Studies "Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages" at the University of Tübingen. He has published works on the social history of the Late Antique and Early Medieval Mediterranean world.

Author : Douglas Whalin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030609061

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Roman Identity from the Arab Conquests to the Triumph of Orthodoxy by Douglas Whalin Pdf

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 : Carl Dixon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004517080

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The Paulicians by Carl Dixon Pdf

In a searching challenge to the paradigm of medieval Christian dualism, this study reenvisions the Paulicians as largely conventional Christians engendered by complex socio-religious forces in the borderlands of Armenia and Asia Minor.

Author : Gregory Leighton,Łukasz Różycki,Piotr Pranke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000645927

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Continuation or Change? Borders and Frontiers in Late Antiquity and Medieval Europe by Gregory Leighton,Łukasz Różycki,Piotr Pranke Pdf

This volume examines interdisciplinary boundaries and includes texts focusing on material culture, philological analysis, and historical research. What they all have in common are zones that lie in between, treated not as mere barriers but also as places of exchange in the early Middle Ages. Focusing on borderlands, Continuation or Change uncovers the changing political and military organisations at the time and the significance of the functioning of former borderland areas. The chapters answer how the fiscal and military apparatus were organised, identify the turning points in the division of dynastic power, and assign meaning to the assimilation of certain symbolic and ideological elements of the imperial tradition. Finally, the authors offer answers to what exactly a "statehood without a state" was in regard to semi-peripheral and peripheral areas that were also perceived through the prism of the idea of a world system, network theory, or the concept of so-called negotiating borderlands. Continuation or Change is a useful resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in medieval warfare, Eastern European history, medieval border regions, and cross-cultural interaction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004500648

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Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests by Anonim Pdf

Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests is a showcase of new discoveries in an exciting and rapidly developing field: the study of the transition from Late Antiquity to Early Islam. The Arab conquests are shown to have changed both the Arabian conquerors and the conquered.

Author : Robert G. Hoyland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190209650

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In God's Path by Robert G. Hoyland Pdf

In just over a hundred years--from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750--the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. Their armies threatened states as far flung as the Franks in Western Europe and the Tang Empire in China. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion, and it was claimed for the Arabs in roughly half the time. How this collection of Arabian tribes was able to engulf so many empires, states, and armies in such a short period has perplexed historians for centuries. Most accounts of the Arab invasions have been based almost solely on the early Muslim sources, which were composed centuries later to illustrate the divinely chosen status of the Arabs. Robert Hoyland's groundbreaking new history assimilates not only the rich biographical information of the early Muslim sources but also the many non-Arabic sources, contemporaneous or near-contemporaneous with the conquests. In God's Path begins with a broad picture of the Late Antique world prior to the Prophet's arrival, a world dominated by two superpowers: Byzantium and Sasanian Persia. In between these empires, emerged a distinct Arabian identity, which helped forge the inhabitants of western Arabia into a formidable fighting force. The Arabs are the principal actors in this drama yet, as Hoyland shows, the peoples along the edges of Byzantium and Persia--the Khazars, Bulgars, Avars, and Turks--all played critical roles in the remaking of the old world order. The new faith propagated by Muhammad and his successors made it possible for many of the conquered peoples to join the Arabs in creating the first Islamic Empire. Well-paced, comprehensive, and eminently readable, In God's Path presents a sweeping narrative of a transformational period in world history.

Author : Walter Pohl,Clemens Gantner,Richard Payne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317001362

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Visions of Community in the Post-Roman World by Walter Pohl,Clemens Gantner,Richard Payne Pdf

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 imperial periphery in Byzantium, and contributed to the inner dynamic of Islamic states without becoming a resource of political integration. Similarly, the political role of religion also differed between the emerging post-Roman worlds. It is surprising that little systematic research has been done in these fields so far. The 32 contributions to the volume explore this new line of research and look at different aspects of the process, with leading western Medievalists, Byzantinists and Islamicists covering a wide range of pertinent topics. At a closer look, some of the apparent differences between the West and the Islamic world seem less distinctive, and the inner variety of all post-Roman societies becomes more marked. At the same time, new variations in the discourse of community and the practice of power emerge. Anybody interested in the development of the post-Roman Mediterranean, but also in the relationship between the Islamic World and the West, will gain new insights from these studies on the political role of ethnicity and religion in the post-Roman Mediterranean.

Author : Rutger Kramer,Walter Pohl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190067960

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Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, C. 400-1000 CE by Rutger Kramer,Walter Pohl Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book deals with the ways empires affect smaller communities like ethnic groups, religious communities and local or peripheral populations. It raises the question how these different types of community were integrated into larger imperial edifices, and in which contexts the dialectic between empires and particular communities caused disruption. How did religious discourses or practices reinforce (or subvert) imperial pretenses? How were constructions of identity affected in the process? How were Egyptians accommodated under Islamic rule, Yemenis included in an Arab identity, Aquitanians integrated in the Carolingian empire, Jews in the Fatimid Caliphate? Why did the dissolution of Western Rome and the Abbasid Caliphate lead to different types of polities in their wake? How was the Byzantine Empire preserved in the 7th century; how did the Franks construct theirs in the 9th? How did single events in early medieval Rome and Constantinople promote social integration in both a local and a broader framework? Focusing on the post-Roman Mediterranean, this book deals with these questions from a comparative perspective. It takes into account political structures in the Latin West, in Byzantium and in the early Islamic world, and does so in a period that is exceptionally well suited to study the various expansive and erosive dynamics of empires, as well as their interaction with smaller communities. By never adhering to a single overall model, and avoiding Western notions of empire, this volume combines individual approaches with collaborative perspectives. Taken together, these chapters constitute a major contribution to the advancement of comparative studies on pre-modern empires.

Author : Walter E. Kaegi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107393240

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Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests by Walter E. Kaegi Pdf

This is a study of how and why the Byzantine Empire lost many of its most valuable provinces to Islamic (Arab) conquerors in the seventh century, provinces which included Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Armenia. It investigates conditions on the eve of those conquests, mistakes in Byzantine policy toward the Arabs, the course of the military campaigns, and the problem of local official and civilian collaboration with the Muslims. It also seeks to explain how, after terrible losses, the Byzantine government achieved some intellectual rationalisation of its disasters and began the complex process of transforming and adapting its fiscal and military institutions and political controls in order to prevent further disintegration.

Author : Maged S. A. Mikhail
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857736826

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From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt by Maged S. A. Mikhail Pdf

The conquest of Egypt by Islamic armies under the command of Amr ibn al-As in the seventh century transformed medieval Egyptian society. Seeking to uncover the broader cultural changes of the period by drawing on a wide array of literary and documentary sources, Maged Mikhail stresses the cultural and institutional developments that punctuated the histories of Christians and Muslims in the province under early Islamic rule. From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt traces how the largely agrarian Egyptian society responded to the influx of Arabic and Islam, the means by which the Coptic Church constructed its sectarian identity, the Islamisation of the administrative classes and how these factors converged to create a new medieval society. The result is a fascinating and essential study for scholars of Byzantine and early Islamic Egypt.

Author : John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon Liebeschuetz
Publisher : Variorum Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034240874

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From Diocletian to the Arab Conquest by John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon Liebeschuetz Pdf

Author : Jonathan Conant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107375840

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Staying Roman by Jonathan Conant Pdf

What did it mean to be Roman once the Roman Empire had collapsed in the West? Staying Roman examines Roman identities in the region of modern Tunisia and Algeria between the fifth-century Vandal conquest and the seventh-century Islamic invasions. Using historical, archaeological and epigraphic evidence, this study argues that the fracturing of the empire's political unity also led to a fracturing of Roman identity along political, cultural and religious lines, as individuals who continued to feel 'Roman' but who were no longer living under imperial rule sought to redefine what it was that connected them to their fellow Romans elsewhere. The resulting definitions of Romanness could overlap, but were not always mutually reinforcing. Significantly, in late antiquity Romanness had a practical value, and could be used in remarkably flexible ways to foster a sense of similarity or difference over space, time and ethnicity, in a wide variety of circumstances.

Author : Walter E Kaegi, Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 110739855X

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Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests by Walter E Kaegi, Jr. Pdf

This book examines how the Byzantine Empire came to lose so much of its territory to Islamic conquerors in the seventh century.

Author : Walter E. Kaegi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521484553

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Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests by Walter E. Kaegi Pdf

This is a study of how and why the Byzantine Empire lost many of its most valuable provinces to Islamic (Arab) conquerors in the seventh century, provinces which included Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Armenia. It investigates conditions on the eve of those conquests, mistakes in Byzantine policy toward the Arabs, the course of the military campaigns, and the problem of local official and civilian collaboration with the Muslims. It also seeks to explain how, after terrible losses, the Byzantine government achieved some intellectual rationalisation of its disasters and began the complex process of transforming and adapting its fiscal and military institutions and political controls in order to prevent further disintegration.

Author : Walter E Kaegi, Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1107390133

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Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests by Walter E Kaegi, Jr. Pdf

This book examines how the Byzantine Empire came to lose so much of its territory to Islamic conquerors in the seventh century.