Byzantium and Its Neighbours. Religious Self and Otherness in Dialogue
Byzantium and Its Neighbours. Religious Self and Otherness in Dialogue
Descrizione
The volume is partly inspired by the papers presented during the thematic session Byzantium and Its Neighbours: Religious Self and Otherness in Dialogue at the 24th; International Congress of Byzantine Studies held in Venice/Padua in August 2022.
Its primary focus lies in Byzantine polemics against religious others, especially Muslims, Jews, Armenians and Latins.
The contributions cover a wide range of themes, including the repertoire of topoi and arguments developed by Byzantine polemicists against various opponents, the linguistic and rhetorical strategies employed in the works analysed, and questions of authorship and audience.
The volume helps to elucidate aspects of the political and socio-cultural context in which this significant body of Byzantine literature was produced or received, while at the same time opening up new ways of approaching this typology of sources.
Editore:
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University PressData:
2024Formato
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Soggetto
• Byzantine Church • Byzantine literature • Polemical treatises • Byzantine apologetics • Ethno-religious stereotypes • Byzantine anti-islamic literature • Byzantine • Invective • Muslims • Hate speech • Methodology • Polemical literature • Latin Christianity • Latins • Derogatory labels • Manuscript circulation • Byzantine polemics • Ottoman studies • Interreligious debate • Anti-Jewish • Islam • Turkish customs • Interdisciplinarity • Rhetoric • Alterity • Audience • Polemic • Crusader States • Medieval Palestine • Armenian Church • Medieval Islam • Palaeologan literature • Political reasons • Late Byzantium • Official epistles • Theory • Collective identity • Theological debates • Byzantine Literature • Byzantine polemics and apologetics • Dialogue • Greek language • Ethnic and religious stereotypes • Medieval Judaism
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