دانلود کتاب The Concept of the Elect Nation in Byzantium (Medieval Mediterranean)

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‎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