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Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, c.700-c.1500 - A Framework for Comparing Three Spheres (Hardcover)
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Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, c.700-c.1500 - A Framework for Comparing Three Spheres (Hardcover)
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This comparative study explores three key cultural and political
spheres - the Latin west, Byzantium and the Islamic world from
Central Asia to the Atlantic - roughly from the emergence of Islam
to the fall of Constantinople. These spheres drew on a shared pool
of late antique Mediterranean culture, philosophy and science, and
they had monotheism and historical antecedents in common. Yet where
exactly political and spiritual power lay, and how it was
exercised, differed. This book focuses on power dynamics and
resource-allocation among ruling elites; the legitimisation of
power and property with the aid of religion; and on rulers'
interactions with local elites and societies. Offering the reader
route-maps towards navigating each sphere and grasping the
fundamentals of its political culture, this set of parallel studies
offers a timely and much needed framework for comparing the
societies surrounding the medieval Mediterranean.
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