TY - BOOK ID - 101230367 TI - The Routledge handbook on identity in Byzantium AU - Stewart, Michael Edward AU - Parnell, David Alan AU - Whately, Conor PY - 2022 SN - 0429633408 0429031378 1032207086 9781032207087 9780367143411 0367143410 9780429031373 PB - London Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Ethnology KW - Group identity KW - Collective identity KW - Community identity KW - Cultural identity KW - Social identity KW - Social psychology KW - Collective memory KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Personal identity KW - Personality KW - Self KW - Ego (Psychology) KW - Individuality KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Civilization. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101230367 AB - This volume is the first to focus solely on how specific individuals and groups in Byzantium and its borderlands were defined and distinguished from other individuals and groups from the mid-fourth to the close of the fifteenth century. It gathers chapters from both established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines across history, art, archaeology, and religion to provide an accurate representation of the state of the field both now and in its immediate future. The handbook is divided into four subtopics that examine concepts of group and specific individual identity which have been chosen to provide methodologically sophisticated and multidisciplinary perspectives on specific categories of group and individual identity. The topics are Imperial Identities; Romanitas in the late antique Mediterranean; Macro and Micro Identities: Religious, Regional, and Ethnic Identities, and Internal Others; Gendered Identities: Literature, Memory, and Self in Early & Middle Byzantium. While no single volume could ever provide a comprehensive vision of identities on the vast variety of peoples within Byzantium over nearly a millennium of its history, this handbook represents a milestone in offering a survey of the vibrant surge of scholarship examining the numerous and oft-times fluctuating codes of identity that shaped and transformed Byzantium and its neighbours during the empire's long life. ER -