Faith and Community: Their Deployment in the Modern Study of Byzantino-Arabica
Faith and Community: Their Deployment in the Modern Study of Byzantino-Arabica
Author(s): Maria MavroudiSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Ancient World, Middle Ages, Theology and Religion, 6th to 12th Centuries, Philology
Published by: Herlo Verlag UG
Keywords: Byzantium and the Arabs; “East”-“West”; postcolonialism; presentism; philology;
Summary/Abstract: The article outlines scholarly developments of the last thirty years in the study of Byzantium and the Arabs and places them within the political, social, and economic considerations of this period. It explains why Byzantium is important in order to avoid crude oppositions between an Islamic “East” and a Christian “West”. Further, it asks how present concerns may safely guide investigations of the past and uses the scholarship of Peter Brown to propose an answer.
Journal: Études byzantines et post-byzantines
- Issue Year: 1/2019
- Issue No: VIII
- Page Range: 239-250
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
