دانلود کتاب Visions of Community in the Post-Roman World: The West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, 300–1100

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Introduction: Ethnicity, Religion and Empire
Part I What Difference Does Ethnicity Make?
Tribe and State: Social Anthropological Approaches
1 Envisioning Medieval Communities in Asia: Remarks on Ethnicity, Tribalism and Faith
2 Tribal Mobility and Religious Fixation: Remarks on Territorial Transformation and Identity in Imperial and Early Post-Imperial Tibet
Identity and Difference in the Roman World
3 Zur Neustiftung von Identität unter imperialer Herrschaft:
Die Provinzen des Römischen Reiches als ethnische Entitäten
4 The Nabataeans – Problems of Defining Ethnicity in the Ancient World
5 Political Identity versus Religious Distinction? The Case of Egypt in the Later Roman Empire
Ethnic Identities in the Early Medieval West
6 How Many Peoples Are (in) a People?
7 The Providential Past: Visions of Frankish Identity in the Early Medieval History of Gregory of Tours’ Historiae (sixth–ninth century)
8 Inventing Wales
Early Islamic Identities
9 Religious Communities in the Early Islamic World
10 Seventh-Century Identities: The Case of North Africa
Christian Identities in the Middle East
11 Ethnicity, Ethnogenesis and the Identity of Syriac Orthodox Christians
12 Avoiding Ethnicity: Uses of the Ancient Past in Late Sasanian Northern Mesopotamia
13 Truth and Lies, Ceremonial and Art: Issues of Nationality in
Medieval Armenia
14 Roman Identity in a Border Region: Evagrius and the Defence of the Roman Empire
15 Holy Land and Sacred History: A View from Early Ethiopia
Part II Political Identities and the Integration of Communities
Regional and Imperial Identites in the East
16 Anastasios und die ‚Geschichte‘ der Isaurier
17 Zur Stellung von ethnischen und religiösen Minderheiten in Byzanz: Armenier, Muslime und Paulikianer
18 Regional Identities and Military Power: Byzantium and Islam ca. 600–750
The Challenge of Difference: Early Medieval Christian Europe
19 ‘Faithful believers’: Oaths of Allegiance in Post-Roman Societies as Evidence for Eastern and Western ‘Visions of Community’
20 „Einheit“ versus „Fraktionierung“: Zur symbolischen und institutionellen Integration des Frankenreichs im 8./9. Jahrhundert
21 Diaspora Jewish Communities in Early Medieval Europe: Structural Conditions for Survival and Expansion
22 New Visions of Community in Ninth-Century Rome: The Impact of the Saracen Threat on the Papal World View
Part III Visions of Community, Perceptions of Difference
Islamic Views
23 Arabic-Islamic Historiographers on the Emergence of Latin-Christian Europe
24 The Vikings in the South through Arab Eyes
25 Identities of the Ṣaqāliba and the Rūsiyya in Early Arabic Sources
Byzantine Views
26 Gog, Magog und die Hunnen: Anmerkungen zur eschatologischen
„Ethnographie“ der Völkerwanderungszeit
27 Strategies of Identification and Distinction in the Byzantine Discourse on the Seljuk Turks
Western Views
28 ‘A wild man, whose hand will be against all’: Saracens and Ishmaelites in Latin Ethnographical Traditions, from Jerome to Bede
29 Where the Wild Things Are
Conclusions
Conclusions
Conclusions
Index