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041			_aeng
050			_aDF550 _b.E84 2018
100			_aEshel, Shay
245		4	_aThe Concept of the Elect Nation in Byzantium _b/ _cShay Eshel
260			_aLeiden ; Boston : _bBrill, _c2018
300			_aviii, 224 p. _b; _c24 cm.
490			_aThe medieval Mediterranean: peoples, economies and cultures; _v113
505			_aIntroduction -- 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.
650			_aElection (Theology)Byzantine Empire--History.Byzantine Empire--Church history.
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