Negotiating co-existence
Subtitle: communities, cultures and convivencia in Byzantine society
By: Barbara Crostini, Sergio La Porta (eds.).
Series: Bochumer altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium -- Bd. 96; Bochumer altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium -- Bd. 96.
Publisher: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier; Otto, Dr. Erwin, u. Ulrike Kornelius, WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Trier
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9783868215045
Subjects: Multiculturalism; Multilingualism; Politics and culture; International relations and culture
Description: "Straddling Europe and Asia, the Byzantine Empire encompassed dozens of peoples and cultures. The essays in this volume, selected from a European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop held at Trinity College Dublin in October 2010, apply the controversial concept of convivencia, borrowed from Iberian studies, to the traditional structure of the Byzantine Commonwealth. Their overall purpose is to challenge dominant perceptions defining the identity of and interaction among the cultures of the Byzantine Empire."--
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Essays selected from a European Science Foundation Exploratory workshop entitled, "Convivencia in Byzantium? Cultural Exchanges in a Multi-Lingual and Multi-Ethnic Society", held at Trinity College Dublin, 1-3 October 2010

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : exploring Byzantine Convivencia / -- Barbara Crostini; title: Delineating Arabs and Islam in Byzantium --; title: Maslama and the alleged construction of the first Mosque in constantinople c. 718  -- David Woods; title: John Damascene on Islam: a long-term history in Byzantium  -- Reinhold F. Glei; title: Language and dynamics of communication in Byzantium : the 'Image' of the Arabs in hagiographical sources  -- Nike Koutrakou; title: Material exchanges and cultural diffusion --; title: Manuscripts as mirrors of a multilingual and multicultural society : the case of the damascus find  -- Arianna D'Ottone; title: ... : Greek Bible and Hebraica Veritas among Byzantine Christians and Jews  -- Mariachiara Fincati; title: 'Reading' art and material culture : Greeks, Slavs and Arabs in the Byzantine Aegean  -- Athanasios K. Vionis; title: Crossing borders in texts and art : tales from the frontiers --; title: Constantine's Baptism Legend : a 'Wandering' story between Byzantium, Rome, the Syriac and the Arab world  -- Isabel Toral-Niehoff; title: The fall of the idol on the frame of the Genoa Mandylion : a narrative on/of the borders  -- Francesco Dell'Acqua; title: The tale of the veronica in Paris, BnF fr. 1553 : an example of translatio studii et imperii?  -- Channaine Lee; title: The dynamics of co-existence --; title: Both Byzantine and Jewish? : the extent and limits of Jewish integration in middle Byzantine society  -- Joshua Holo; title: Convivencia between Christians : the Greek and Latin communities of Byzantine South Italy (9th-11th centuries)  -- Annick Peters-Custot; title: Greeks and Italians in twelfth-century constantinople : convivencia or conflict?  -- Savvas Neocleous; title: Re-constructing Armenia : strategies of co-existence amongst Christians and Muslims in the thirteenth century -- Sergio La Porta-- Index nominum et rerum-- List of contributors.