TY - BOOK ID - 91268900 TI - Byzantium, its neighbours and its cultures AU - Džino, Danijel AU - Parry, Ken PY - 2017 SN - 9781876503017 1876503017 9004344918 PB - Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Diplomatic relations. KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Europe KW - Middle East KW - Byzantine Empire. KW - Europe. KW - Middle East. KW - Foreign relations KW - Relations KW - Asia KW - Asia, Western KW - Eastern Mediterranean KW - Eastern Mediterranean Region KW - Fertile Crescent KW - Levant KW - Mideast KW - Near East KW - South West KW - Southwest Asia KW - West Asia KW - Western Asia KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - Council of Europe countries KW - Bajo Imperio KW - Bizancjum KW - Bizantia KW - Byzantinē Autokratoria KW - Byzantium (Empire) KW - Impero bizantino KW - Vizantii͡ KW - Vyzantinē Autokratoria KW - Vyzantinon Kratos KW - Vizantii︠a︡ KW - Civilization. KW - Barbarism KW - Civilisation KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Culture KW - World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:91268900 AB - Byzantium was one of the longest-lasting empires in history. Throughout the millennium of its existence, the empire showed its capability to change and develop under very different historical circumstances. This remarkable resilience would have been impossible to achieve without the formation of a lasting imperial culture and a strong imperial ideological infrastructure. Imperial culture and ideology required, among other things, to sort out who was ʻinsiderʼ and who was ʻoutsiderʼ and develop ways to define and describe ones neighbours and interact with them. There is an indefinite number of possibilities for the exploration of relationships between Byzantium and its neighbours. The essays in this collection focus on several interconnected clusters of topics and shared research interests, such as the place of neighbours in the context of the empire and imperial ideology, the transfer of knowledge with neighbours, the Byzantine perception of their neighbours and the political relationship and/or the conflict with neighbours. ER -