Emergent Elites and Byzantium in the Balkans and East-Central Europe
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Balkan Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula Civilization Byzantine influences
Balkanhalbinsel
Binnenlandse politiek
Bulgaria
Bulgaria Foreign relations Byzantine Empire
Bulgarie Relations exterieures Empire byzantin
Byzantijnse rijk
Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire Foreign relations 527-1081
Byzantine Empire Foreign relations Bulgaria
Byzantine influence on Balkan rulers
Byzantinisches Reich
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Christianisation processes
Civilization Byzantine influences
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cross-cultural religious exchange
Culturele invloeden
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Diplomatic relations
Eastern Civilization Byzantine influences
Eastern Europe
Elite
elite power dynamics
Elites
Empire byzantin Relations exterieures 527-1081
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imperial diplomacy strategies
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medieval state formation
Midden-Europa
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Slavic political culture
Slavische volken
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Sudosteuropa
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- ISBN 9781409403647
- Weight: 922g
- Dimensions: 150 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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According to Byzantium's leaders, their imperial order anchored in Constantinople was the centre of excellence - spiritual, moral, material and aesthetic. They rewarded individuals willing to join, and favoured outside groupings prepared to cooperate militarily or politically. Interactions with outsiders varied over place and time, complicated by the sometimes differing priorities of Byzantine churchmen and monks on or beyond Byzantium's borders. These studies consider the dynamics of such interactions, notably the interrelationship between the Bulgarians and their Byzantine neighbour. The Bulgarians' reaction to Byzantium ranged from 'contrarianism' to the systematic adaptation of Byzantine religious orthodoxy, ideals of rulership and normative values after Khan Boris' acceptance of eastern Christianity. For their part, Byzantine rulers were readier to do business with their Bulgarian counterparts than official pronouncements let on, occasionally even adopting aspects of Bulgarian political culture. Byzantium's interrelationship with other ruling elites was less intensive, but the process of Christianisation and the need to format this in readily comprehensible terms could make even distant potentates look to the template of effective Christian sole rulership which Byzantium's rulers embodied. Hungarian and Rus leaders were of abiding geopolitical interest to imperial statecraft, and the studies here show how during the generations around 1000 Byzantine political imagery resonated throughout the region.
Jonathan Shepard is a British historian specializing in early medieval Russia, the Caucasus, and the Byzantine Empire. Formerly University Lecturer in Russian History at the University of Cambridge, he is regarded as a leading authority in Byzantine studies and on the Kievan Rus.
