Eshel, Shay  <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>97890043494769004349472 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Election (Theology)Byzantine Empire--History.Byzantine Empire--Church history.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DF550   / .E84 2018