Format:
1 Online-Ressource (588 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781317001362
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- 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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409427094
Additional Edition:
Print version Gantner, Clemens Visions of Community in the Post-Roman World : The West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, 300–1100 London : Taylor and Francis,c2016 ISBN 9781409427094
Language:
English
