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Emergent Elites and Byzantium in the Balkans and East-Central Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Emergent Elites and Byzantium in the Balkans and East-Central Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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According to Byzantium's leaders, their imperial order anchored in
Constantinople was the centre of excellence - spiritual, moral,
material and aesthetic. They rewarded individuals willing to join,
and favoured outside groupings prepared to cooperate militarily or
politically. Interactions with outsiders varied over place and
time, complicated by the sometimes differing priorities of
Byzantine churchmen and monks on or beyond Byzantium's borders.
These studies consider the dynamics of such interactions, notably
the interrelationship between the Bulgarians and their Byzantine
neighbour. The Bulgarians' reaction to Byzantium ranged from
'contrarianism' to the systematic adaptation of Byzantine religious
orthodoxy, ideals of rulership and normative values after Khan
Boris' acceptance of eastern Christianity. For their part,
Byzantine rulers were readier to do business with their Bulgarian
counterparts than official pronouncements let on, occasionally even
adopting aspects of Bulgarian political culture. Byzantium's
interrelationship with other ruling elites was less intensive, but
the process of Christianisation and the need to format this in
readily comprehensible terms could make even distant potentates
look to the template of effective Christian sole rulership which
Byzantium's rulers embodied. Hungarian and Rus leaders were of
abiding geopolitical interest to imperial statecraft, and the
studies here show how during the generations around 1000 Byzantine
political imagery resonated throughout the region.
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