Imperial Lineages and Legacies in the Eastern Mediterranean: Recording the Imprint of Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Rule

ISBN-13: 9780367882310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 216 str.

Rhoads Murphey

Opis

The empires of Rome, Byzantium, the Ottomans and later the British, all sought to develop a common territorial base in the Eastern Mediterranean and all struggled to control the political and spiritual allegiances of the indigenous groups that were brought under their rule. This volume addresses the various dimensions of these successive empires

Spis treści

Introduction: Haldon and Murphey / Part 1 Law and Empire: Byzantine law courts and their Roman antecedents, Morris / Hybridity in Ottoman legal tradition as a source of flexibility in governing the empire: an overview with particular reference to the application of the ruler’s executive judicial or örfi powers, Murphey / Custom, tradition, and ‘law’ in the post-medieval Cyclades, Kasdagli / Part 2 Assertion and Disputation of Imperial identity in Art: Reflections on the influence of imperial art on Christian art, Brenk / God or emperor?: Imperial legacies in Byzantine Christian visual culture, Brubaker / Part 3 Individual, Group and Corporate Identity in an Imperial Context: Religious pluralism in the Balkans during the late Ottoman imperial era: towards a dynamic model, Clayer / Art, language and power in the late Ottoman Empire, Strauss / The Ottoman legacy to post-Ottoman states, Anscombe / Part 4 Empire and Region / Region and Empire: Regional impact of the Ottoman Empire in Greece: archaeological perspectives, Bintliff / Imperial impacts, regional diversities and local responses: island identities as reflected on Byzantine Naxos, Vionis / Legacies in the landscape: the Vostizza District, c.1460-1715, Wagstaff.

O autorze

Rhoads Murphey was Reader in Ottoman Studies at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, UK, and is now Professor of History at Ipek University (Ankara), Turkey.