01216nam a2200181Ia 4500 220922s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97890043494769004349472 eng DF550 .E84 2018 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. Election (Theology)Byzantine Empire--History.Byzantine Empire--Church history. 0 0 0 0 GETS GETS GEN 2022-09-21 24.50 0 DF550 .E84 2018 00027622 2022-09-21 00:00:00 2022-09-21 BK 41703 41703