Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World

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List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction The Ideology of Identities and the Identity of Ideologies
Part I Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches
	1. Is Byzantinism an Orientalism? Reflections on Byzantium’s Constructed Identities and Debated Ideologies
	2. Ruling Elites and the Common People: Some Considerations on Their Diverging Identities and Ideologies
	3. The Dēmosia, the Emperor and the Common Good: Byzantine Ideas on Taxation and Public Wealth, Eleventh–Twelfth Century
	4. Beyond Religion: Homilies as Conveyors of Political Ideology in Middle Byzantium
	5. Performing Byzantine Identity: Gender, Status and the Cult of the Virgin
	6. ‘Middle-Class’ Ideology of Education and Language, and the ‘Bookish’ Identity of John Tzetzes
	7. Byzantium from Below: Rural Identity in Byzantine Arabia and Palaestina, 500–630
	8. Community-Building and Collective Identity in Middle Byzantine Athens
Part II Centre and Periphery
	9. Provincial Rebellions as an Indicator of Byzantine ‘Identity’ (Tenth–Twelfth Centuries)
	10. Provincial Separatism in the Late Twelfth Century: A Case of Power Relations or Disparate Identities?
	11. Irrevocable Blood: Violence and Collective Identity Formation in the Late Twelfth Century
	12. Adjustable Imperial Image-Projection and the Greco-Roman Repertoire: Their Reception among Outsiders and Longer-Stay Visitors
	13. Two Paradoxes of Border Identity: Michael VIII Palaiologos and Constantine Doukas Nestongos in the Sultanate of Rūm
	14. The Coriander Field: Ideologies and Identities in Post-Roman Ravenna
	15. Cultural Policy and Political Ideology: How Imperial Was the Norman Realm of Sicily?
	16. Changes in Identity and Ideology in the Byzantine World in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century: The Case of Serbia
Index