Description
This book uses sociological perspectives to bring together work on war and identity in the Middle Ages relating to a range of peoples and geographical settings from Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Asia. Focusing on the interrelation between ideological practices and group formation, it examines the role of warfare in the emergence and decline of particular social structures, and changing patterns of collective identification. It contributes to the debate on the longue durée development of the phenomena of ethnicity and nationhood by drawing attention to the impact of war on the evolution of various types of polity and visions of community in the Middle Ages. Its use of non-European as well as European exemplars provides a wealth of fruitful comparative material, shedding new light on the relationship between medieval warfare and high-level identities.
Author: Yannis Stouraitis
Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
Published: 04/30/2023
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781641893626
ISBN10: 1641893621
BISAC Categories:
- History | Military | Medieval
- History | Social History
- History | Europe | Medieval
About the Author
Yannis Stouraitis=================
Yannis Stouraitis is senior lecturer in Byzantine history at the University of Edinburgh and author of Krieg und Frieden in politischer und ideologischer Wahrnehmung in Byzanz (7.-11. Jahrhundert) (2009).