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This volume looks at 'visions of community' in a comparative
perspective, from Late Antiquity to the dawning of the age of
crusades. It addresses the question of why and how distinctive new
political cultures developed after the disintegration of the Roman
World, and to what degree their differences had already emerged in
the first post-Roman centuries. The Latin West, Orthodox Byzantium
and its Slavic periphery, and the Islamic world each retained
different parts of the Graeco-Roman heritage, while introducing new
elements. For instance, ethnicity became a legitimizing element of
rulership in the West, remained a structural element of the
imperial periphery in Byzantium, and contributed to the inner
dynamic of Islamic states without becoming a resource of political
integration. Similarly, the political role of religion also
differed between the emerging post-Roman worlds. It is surprising
that little systematic research has been done in these fields so
far. The 32 contributions to the volume explore this new line of
research and look at different aspects of the process, with leading
western Medievalists, Byzantinists and Islamicists covering a wide
range of pertinent topics. At a closer look, some of the apparent
differences between the West and the Islamic world seem less
distinctive, and the inner variety of all post-Roman societies
becomes more marked. At the same time, new variations in the
discourse of community and the practice of power emerge. Anybody
interested in the development of the post-Roman Mediterranean, but
also in the relationship between the Islamic World and the West,
will gain new insights from these studies on the political role of
ethnicity and religion in the post-Roman Mediterranean.
This volume looks at 'visions of community' in a comparative
perspective, from Late Antiquity to the dawning of the age of
crusades. It addresses the question of why and how distinctive new
political cultures developed after the disintegration of the Roman
World, and to what degree their differences had already emerged in
the first post-Roman centuries. The Latin West, Orthodox Byzantium
and its Slavic periphery, and the Islamic world each retained
different parts of the Graeco-Roman heritage, while introducing new
elements. For instance, ethnicity became a legitimizing element of
rulership in the West, remained a structural element of the
imperial periphery in Byzantium, and contributed to the inner
dynamic of Islamic states without becoming a resource of political
integration. Similarly, the political role of religion also
differed between the emerging post-Roman worlds. It is surprising
that little systematic research has been done in these fields so
far. The 32 contributions to the volume explore this new line of
research and look at different aspects of the process, with leading
western Medievalists, Byzantinists and Islamicists covering a wide
range of pertinent topics. At a closer look, some of the apparent
differences between the West and the Islamic world seem less
distinctive, and the inner variety of all post-Roman societies
becomes more marked. At the same time, new variations in the
discourse of community and the practice of power emerge. Anybody
interested in the development of the post-Roman Mediterranean, but
also in the relationship between the Islamic World and the West,
will gain new insights from these studies on the political role of
ethnicity and religion in the post-Roman Mediterranean.
"Living Well and Dying Faithfully" explores how Christian practices
-- love, prayer, lament, compassion, and so on -- can contribute to
the process of dying well. Working on the premise that one dies the
way one lives, the book is unique in its constructive dialogue
between theology and medicine as offering two complementary modes
of care.
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