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

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Contents: Introduction: ethnicity, religion and empire, Walter Pohl Part 1 What Difference Does Ethnicity Make?: Tribe and State: Social Anthropological Approaches: Envisioning medieval communities in Asia: remarks on ethnicity, tribalism and faith, Andre Gingrich Tribal mobility and religious fixation: remarks on territorial transformation and identity in imperial and early post-imperial Tibet, Guntram Hazod. Identity and Difference in the Roman World: Zur Neustiftung von Identitat unter imperialer Herrschaft: Die Provinzen des Romischen Reiches als ethnische Entitaten, Fritz Mitthof The Nabataeans - problems of identifying ethnicity in the ancient world, Jan Retso Political identity versus religious distinction? The case of Egypt in the later Roman empire, Bernhard Palme. Ethnic Identities in the Early Medieval West: How many peoples are (in) a people?, Herwig Wolfram The providential past: visions of Frankish identity in the early medieval history of Gregory of Tours' Historiae (6th-9th cent.), Helmut Reimitz Inventing Wales, Catherine McKenna. Early Islamic Identities: Religious communities in the early Islamic world, Michael G. Morony 7th-century identities: the case of North Africa, Walter E. Kaegi. Christian Identities in the Middle East: Ethnicity, ethnogenesis, and the identity of Syriac Orthodox Christians, Bas ter Haar Romeny Avoiding ethnicity: uses of the ancient past in late Sasanian northern Mesopotamia, Richard Payne Truth and lies, ceremonial and art: issues of nationality in medieval Armenia, Lynn Jones Roman identity in a border region: Evagrius and the defence of the Roman empire, Hartmut Leppin Holy land and sacred territory: a view from early Ethiopia, George Hatke. Part 2 Political Identities and the Integration of Communities: Regional and Imperial Identities in the East: Anastasios und die 'Geschichte' der Isaurier, Mischa Meier Zur Stellung von ethnischen und religiosen Minderheiten in Byzanz: Armenier, Muslime und Paulikianer, Ralph-Johannes Lilie Regional identities and military power: Byzantium and Islam c.600-750, John Haldon and Hugh Kennedy. The Challenge of Difference: Early Medieval Christian Europe: 'Faithful believers': oaths of allegiance in post-Roman societies as evidence for Eastern and Western 'visions of community', Stefan Esders 'Einheit' versus 'Fraktionierung': Zur symbolischen und institutionellen Integration des Frankenreichs im 8/9 Jahrhundert, Steffen Patzold Diaspora Jewish communities in early medieval Europe: structural conditions for survival and expansion, Wolfram Drews New visions of community in 9th-century Rome: the impact of the Saracen threat on the papal world view, Clemens Gantner. Part 3 Visions of Community, Perceptions of Difference: Islamic Views: Arab-Islamic historiographers on the emergence of Latin-Christian Europe, Daniel G. Konig The Vikings in the South through Arab eyes, Ann Christys Identities of the Saqaliba and the Rusiyya in early Arabic sources, Przemyslaw Urbanczyk. Byzantine Views: Gog, Magog und die Hunnen: Anmerkungen zur eschatologischen 'Ethnographie' der Volkerwanderungszeit, Wolfram Brandes Strategies of identification and distinction in the Byzantine discourse on the Seljuk Turks, Alexander Beihammer. Western Views: 'A wild man whose hand will be against all': Saracens and Ishmaelites in Latin ethnographical traditions, from Jerome to Bede, John Victor Tolan Where the wild things are, Ian N. Wood. Conclusions: Conclusions, Leslie Brubaker Conclusions, Chris Wickham Index.

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