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The Concept of the Elect Nation in Byzantium /

Eshel, Shay

The Concept of the Elect Nation in Byzantium / Shay Eshel - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 - viii, 224 p. ; 24 cm. - The medieval Mediterranean: peoples, economies and cultures; 113 .

Introduction -- The elect nation concept as part of the Byzantine response to the calamities of the seventh century -- The institutional adoption and use of the elect nation concept from Heraklios to Leo III -- The elect nation concept as an identity element of the embattled Byzantine society, seventh-ninth centuries -- The effect of the iconoclast controversy upon the Byzantine elect nation concept -- The Macedonian dynasty and the expanding empire, ninth-tenth centuries -- Two concepts of election, influence and competition : Byzantium and the Franks during the Crusades -- Summary and conclusions.

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Election (Theology)Byzantine Empire--History.Byzantine Empire--Church history.

DF550 / .E84 2018
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