TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eshel, Shay 
TI  - The Concept of the Elect Nation in Byzantium  
T2  - The medieval Mediterranean: peoples, economies and cultures
SN  - 97890043494769004349472
AV  - DF550  .E84 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Leiden ; Boston : 
PB  - Brill
KW  - Election (Theology)Byzantine Empire--History.Byzantine Empire--Church history
N1  - 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
ER  -