Political culture in the Latin west, Byzantium and the Islamic world, c.700-c.1500 : a framework for comparing three spheres /
Holmes, Catherine,1968-editor.
Shepard, Jonathan,editor.
Steenbergen, J. van,editor.
Weiler, Björn K. U.,editor.
"Our main aim is to provide a set of parallel studies to enable readers with experience in the history and historiography of one sphere to gain grounding in the fundamentals of the political cultures of the other two. We hope to provide a framework, or set of starting points, for those keen to work at a comparative level across spheres, or to explore overlaps and entanglements between them. Individual chapters refer to current specialist scholarship and may be of interest to subject specialists, but our overriding concern is to make these spheres accessible to non-specialists"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Political culture in three spheres : introduction / Catherine Holmes, Jonathan Shepard, Jo Van Steenbergen and Björn Weiler -- Reflections on political culture in three spheres / R. Stephen Humphreys -- Comparing the three spheres through the prism of the sources / Jonathan Shepard -- The Latin west : sources / Björn Weiler and Jonathan Shepard -- Byzantium : sources / Jonathan Shepard -- The Islamic world : sources / Jo Van Steenbergen and Jonathan Shepard -- The Latin west : pluralism in the shadow of the past / Len Scales -- Byzantium : one or many? / Catherine Holmes -- The Islamic world : conquest, migration and accommodating diversity / Andrew Marsham, Eric Hanne and Jo Van Steenbergen -- The Latin west : expectations and legitimisation / Björn Weiler -- Byzantium : imperial order, Constantinopolitan ceremonial and pyramids of power / Judith Herrin -- The Islamic world : community, leadership and contested patterns of continuity / Andrew Marsham, Eric Hanne and Jo Van Steenbergen -- The Latin west : multiple elites and overlapping jurisdictions / Daniel Power -- Byzantium : 'To have and to hold' -- the acquisition and maintenance of elite power / Rosemary Morris -- The Islamic world : nomads, urban elites and courts in competition / Andrew Marsham, Eric Hanne and Jo Van Steenbergen -- Comparisons, connections and conclusions / Jonathan Shepard.
"Our main aim is to provide a set of parallel studies to enable readers with experience in the history and historiography of one sphere to gain grounding in the fundamentals of the political cultures of the other two. We hope to provide a framework, or set of starting points, for those keen to work at a comparative level across spheres, or to explore overlaps and entanglements between them. Individual chapters refer to current specialist scholarship and may be of interest to subject specialists, but our overriding concern is to make these spheres accessible to non-specialists"--
Political culture.
Comparative government.
Civilization, Medieval.