Empires and communities in the post-Roman and Islamic world, c. 400-1000 CE

Weitere Verfasser: Pohl, Walter, 1953- , [HerausgeberIn]
Kramer, Rutger , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York : Oxford University Press, [2021].
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource.
Schriftenreihe: Oxford studies in early empires
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: Empires and communities in the post-Roman and Islamic world, c. 400-1000 CE (Print version:) | ISSN: 9780190067946
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 1 Datensätze
Online Zugang: open access
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Walter Pohl and Rutger Kramer, Introduction: Empires and communities in the post-Roman and Islamic world
  • Hugh Kennedy, The emergence of new polities in the break-up of the Abbasid Caliphate
  • Walter Pohl, The emergence of new polities in the break-up of the Western Roman Empire
  • Walter Pohl and Hugh Kennedy, Comparative perspectives: differences between the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate
  • Peter Webb, Fragmentation and integration: a response to the contributions by Hugh Kennedy and Walter Pohl
  • John Haldon, Historicizing resilience: the paradox of the Medieval East Roman state; collapse, adaptation, and survival
  • Leslie Brubaker and Chris Wickham, Processions, power, and community identity: east and west
  • Daniel Reynolds, Death of a patriarch: the murder of Yūḥannā ibn Jamī (d. 966) and the question of 'Melkite' identity in Early Islamic Palestine
  • Stefan Esders and Helmut Reimitz, Diversity and convergence: the accommodation of ethnic and legal pluralism in the Carolingian Empire
  • Rutger Kramer, Franks, Romans, and countrymen: Carolingian interests, local identities, and the conquest of Aquitaine
  • Peter Webb, From the sublime to the ridiculous: Yemeni Arab identity in Abbasid Iraq (including appendix: translations of selected poems)
  • Petra Sijpesteijn, Loyal and knowledgeable supporters: integrating Egyptian elites in early Islamic Egypt
  • Chris Wickham, Concluding thoughts: empires and communities.