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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. This book deals with the ways
empires affect smaller communities like ethnic groups, religious
communities and local or peripheral populations. It raises the
question how these different types of community were integrated
into larger imperial edifices, and in which contexts the dialectic
between empires and particular communities caused disruption. How
did religious discourses or practices reinforce (or subvert)
imperial pretenses? How were constructions of identity affected in
the process? How were Egyptians accommodated under Islamic rule,
Yemenis included in an Arab identity, Aquitanians integrated in the
Carolingian empire, Jews in the Fatimid Caliphate? Why did the
dissolution of Western Rome and the Abbasid Caliphate lead to
different types of polities in their wake? How was the Byzantine
Empire preserved in the 7th century; how did the Franks construct
theirs in the 9th? How did single events in early medieval Rome and
Constantinople promote social integration in both a local and a
broader framework? Focusing on the post-Roman Mediterranean, this
book deals with these questions from a comparative perspective. It
takes into account political structures in the Latin West, in
Byzantium and in the early Islamic world, and does so in a period
that is exceptionally well suited to study the various expansive
and erosive dynamics of empires, as well as their interaction with
smaller communities. By never adhering to a single overall model,
and avoiding Western notions of empire, this volume combines
individual approaches with collaborative perspectives. Taken
together, these chapters constitute a major contribution to the
advancement of comparative studies on pre-modern empires.
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