Alterum Byzantium

Series | Alterum Byzantium
Volume 1 | Review | Byzantium and Its Neighbours

Byzantium and Its Neighbours

Religious Self and Otherness in Dialogue
open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Luisa Andriollo - University of Pisa - email
  • Luigi D'Amelia - Sapienza Università di Roma - email

Abstract

The volume is partly inspired by the papers presented during the thematic session Byzantium and its Neighbours: Religious Self and Otherness in Dialogue at the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies held in Venice/Padua in August 2022. Its primary focus lies in Byzantine polemics against religious others, especially Muslims, Jews, Armenians and Latins. The contributions cover a wide range of themes, including the repertoire of topoi and arguments developed by Byzantine polemicists against various opponents, the linguistic and rhetorical strategies employed in the works analysed, and questions of authorship and audience. The volume helps to elucidate aspects of the political and socio-cultural context in which this significant body of Byzantine literature was produced or received, while at the same time opening up new ways of approaching this typology of sources.

Keywords Byzantine ChurchAlterityInterreligious debateOfficial epistlesHate speechByzantine polemics and apologeticsPalaeologan literaturePolemical literatureByzantine&nbsp;apologeticsMedieval PalestineDerogatory labelsInvectiveIslamAnti-JewishGreek languageOttoman studiesEthnic and religious stereotypes<p>Byzantine polemicsMethodologyLate ByzantiumTheological debatesByzantineTurkish customsByzantine literaturePolemical treatisesByzantine LiteratureTheoryAudienceDialogueMuslimsPolemicCollective identityArmenian ChurchManuscript circulationByzantine apologeticsByzantine anti-islamic literatureCrusader StatesLatinsPolitical reasonsInterdisciplinarityByzantine polemics

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-837-8 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-837-8 | Published Forthcoming | Language fr, en

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