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History of the Byzantine Jews - A Microcosmos in the Thousand Year Empire (Paperback)
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History of the Byzantine Jews - A Microcosmos in the Thousand Year Empire (Paperback)
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The History of the Byzantine Jews explores the Jewish microcosmos
in Byzantium. Under the Romans, Jews enjoyed the privileges of
knighthood and nobility. Although these luxuries were significantly
diminished under Theodosius II- whose wife, Eudoxia, was a
judaizing Empress- and the Codex Justinianus, they remained a
powerful entity in Byzantium. In comparison to the irredentist
Samaritans and Paulicians, the Jews remained areligio licita
(permitted religion) that tolerated and even protected by Imperial
and Church authority. Their position in society even enabled the
Jews to vie for increased power. The Byzantine Jews tried to play
the game of power politics through their affiliation with Yemen's
Jewish Himyarites, and ill-fated alliance with the Persian
Sassanides, and finally through the colossal power of the Jewish
Khazar Empire. In this living history of the Byzantine Jews, Author
Elli Kohen attempts to revive the spirit of Moses of Crete,
Procopius, Eusebius, Theophanes Continuatus, and medieval
chroniclers such as Liutbrand, Villehardouin, and Benjamin of
Tudela. Intended as a complementary text to other classics on
Byzantine Jews, this new work emphasizes multicultural cooperation
in the study of this time period. Some of the events and
individuals profiled in The History of the Byzantine Jews include:
-Byzantine and Jewish polemists- the 'Hagiographic Bibliotheca'
-Historiography of a Jewish family in Byzantine Apulia -The
Jerusalem Karaites finding a safe haven in Byzantium -The rerouting
of the fourth Crusade through the Juiverie of Constantinople -The
return of the Paleologues -Byzantine-Jewish coexistence under
Symeon, Archbishop of Salonica
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