The Concept of the Elect Nation in Byzantium (Medieval Mediterranean) 9004349472, 9789004349476
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction
The Question of Byzantine Nationalism in Modern Research and the Approach of the Present Research
The Concept of the Elect Nation: Terminology
The Byzantine Concept of the Elect Nation: Religious and Historical Contexts
Chronological Framework
The State of Research
Theoretical Background: The Concept of the Elect Nation and Its Manifestations throughout History
Chapter 2. The Elect Nation Concept as Part of the Byzantine Response to the Calamities of the Seventh Century
Evaluation of the Elect Nation Motifs in the Works of Antiochos Strategios and Theodore the Synkellos
The Akathistos Hymn, Proem II
The Elect Nation Concept and Seventh-Century Byzantine Reponses to the Muslim Conquest
Chapter 3. The Institutional Adoption and Use of the Elect Nation Concept, from Heraklios to Leo III
The Elect Nation Concept and Heraklian Ideology
The Elect Nation Concept in Canonical and Imperial Reform Legislation: The Council in Trullo and the Ecloga
Chapter 4. The Elect Nation Concept as an Identity Element of the Embattled Byzantine Society, Seventh–Ninth Centuries
The Sermesians and Justinian II’s ‘Peculiar People’
Arab and Russian Invasions of the Black Sea Coasts in the Life of St George of Amastris, Eighth–Ninth Centuries
Photios’ Homilies Concerning the Russian Siege of Constantinople in 860
Chapter 5. The Effect of the Iconoclast Controversy upon the Byzantine Elect Nation Concept
The Iconoclast Controversy and the Biblical Model
National Elements within the Polemical Discourse of the Iconoclast Era
State Religion versus Universal Christianity
Chapter 6. The Macedonian Dynasty and the Expanding Empire, Ninth–Tenth Centuries
Basil I’s Use of the Elect Nation Concept
The Wars against the Muslim World, Holy War and the Byzantine Elect Nation Concept, Ninth–Tenth Centuries
Brothers in the Covenant or Gentiles? The Elect Nation Concept and the Christianization of Eastern Europe: The Bulgarian Case Study
Chapter 7. Two Concepts of Election, Influence and Competition: Byzantium and the Franks during the Crusades
Evolution of the Frankish Election Concept from Charlermagne to the Twelfth Century
Evolution of the Byzantine and Frankish Elect Nation Concepts: Influences and Collisions
Chapter 8. Summary and Conclusions
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Literature
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction
The Question of Byzantine Nationalism in Modern Research and the Approach of the Present Research
The Concept of the Elect Nation: Terminology
The Byzantine Concept of the Elect Nation: Religious and Historical Contexts
Chronological Framework
The State of Research
Theoretical Background: The Concept of the Elect Nation and Its Manifestations throughout History
Chapter 2. The Elect Nation Concept as Part of the Byzantine Response to the Calamities of the Seventh Century
Evaluation of the Elect Nation Motifs in the Works of Antiochos Strategios and Theodore the Synkellos
The Akathistos Hymn, Proem II
The Elect Nation Concept and Seventh-Century Byzantine Reponses to the Muslim Conquest
Chapter 3. The Institutional Adoption and Use of the Elect Nation Concept, from Heraklios to Leo III
The Elect Nation Concept and Heraklian Ideology
The Elect Nation Concept in Canonical and Imperial Reform Legislation: The Council in Trullo and the Ecloga
Chapter 4. The Elect Nation Concept as an Identity Element of the Embattled Byzantine Society, Seventh–Ninth Centuries
The Sermesians and Justinian II’s ‘Peculiar People’
Arab and Russian Invasions of the Black Sea Coasts in the Life of St George of Amastris, Eighth–Ninth Centuries
Photios’ Homilies Concerning the Russian Siege of Constantinople in 860
Chapter 5. The Effect of the Iconoclast Controversy upon the Byzantine Elect Nation Concept
The Iconoclast Controversy and the Biblical Model
National Elements within the Polemical Discourse of the Iconoclast Era
State Religion versus Universal Christianity
Chapter 6. The Macedonian Dynasty and the Expanding Empire, Ninth–Tenth Centuries
Basil I’s Use of the Elect Nation Concept
The Wars against the Muslim World, Holy War and the Byzantine Elect Nation Concept, Ninth–Tenth Centuries
Brothers in the Covenant or Gentiles? The Elect Nation Concept and the Christianization of Eastern Europe: The Bulgarian Case Study
Chapter 7. Two Concepts of Election, Influence and Competition: Byzantium and the Franks during the Crusades
Evolution of the Frankish Election Concept from Charlermagne to the Twelfth Century
Evolution of the Byzantine and Frankish Elect Nation Concepts: Influences and Collisions
Chapter 8. Summary and Conclusions
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Literature
Index
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