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Political culture in the Latin west, Byzantium and the Islamic world, c.700-c.1500 : a framework for comparing three spheres / edited by Catherine Holmes, Jonathan Shepard, Jo Van Steenbergen, Björn Weiler

Holmes, Catherine, 1968- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Shepard, Jonathan, 1948- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Steenbergen, Jo van, 1975- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Weiler, Björn K. U., 1969- [Herausgeberin/-geber]

First paperback edition

Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Melbourne ; New Delhi : Cambridge University Press, 2023

xxxi, 550 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-316-51976-9 (hbk.); 978-1-009-01113-6 (pbk.)

OCoLC: 1416830823     

NM 1500      Ähnliche Literatur

JA75.7

306.2094/0902

Basisklassifikation: 15.26 (Alter Orient; Nordafrika) <Alte Geschichte> ; 15.29 (Byzantinisches Reich) ; 15.30 (Europäische Geschichte in Mittelalter und Neuzeit: Allgemeines)

*Europa ; Byzantinisches Reich ; Islamische Staaten ; Politische Kultur ; Vergleichende Regierungslehre ; Geschichte 700-1500 ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Political culture ; Comparative government ; Civilization, Medieval ; Europe -- Politics and government -- 476-1492 ; Byzantine Empire -- Politics and government ; Islamic countries -- Politics and government

Civilization, Medieval ; Comparative government ; Political culture ; Politics and government ; Byzantine Empire ; Europe ; Islamic countries

Political culture in three spheres : introduction / Catherine Holmes, Jonathan Shepard, Jo Van Steenbergen and Björn Weiler -- Reflections on political culture in three spheres / R. Stephen Humphreys -- Comparing the three spheres through the prism of the sources / Jonathan Shepard -- The Latin west : sources / Björn Weiler and Jonathan Shepard -- Byzantium : sources / Jonathan Shepard -- The Islamic world : sources / Jo Van Steenbergen and Jonathan Shepard -- The Latin west : pluralism in the shadow of the past / Len Scales -- Byzantium : one or many? / Catherine Holmes -- The Islamic world : conquest, migration and accommodating diversity / Andrew Marsham, Eric Hanne and Jo Van Steenbergen -- The Latin west : expectations and legitimisation / Björn Weiler -- Byzantium : imperial order, Constantinopolitan ceremonial and pyramids of power / Judith Herrin -- The Islamic world : community, leadership and contested patterns of continuity / Andrew Marsham, Eric Hanne and Jo Van Steenbergen -- The Latin west : multiple elites and overlapping jurisdictions / Daniel Power -- Byzantium : 'To have and to hold' -- the acquisition and maintenance of elite power / Rosemary Morris -- The Islamic world : nomads, urban elites and courts in competition / Andrew Marsham, Eric Hanne and Jo Van Steenbergen -- Comparisons, connections and conclusions / Jonathan Shepard.

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"Our main aim is to provide a set of parallel studies to enable readers with experience in the history and historiography of one sphere to gain grounding in the fundamentals of the political cultures of the other two. We hope to provide a framework, or set of starting points, for those keen to work at a comparative level across spheres, or to explore overlaps and entanglements between them. Individual chapters refer to current specialist scholarship and may be of interest to subject specialists, but our overriding concern is to make these spheres accessible to non-specialists"--