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This book uses sociological perspectives to bring together work on war and identity in the Middle Ages relating to a range of peoples and geographical settings from Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Asia. Focusing on the interrelation between ideological practices and group formation, it examines the role of warfare in the emergence and decline of particular social structures, and changing patterns of collective identification. It contributes to the debate on the longue durée development of the phenomena of ethnicity and nationhood by drawing attention to the impact of war on the evolution of various types of polity and visions of community in the Middle Ages. Its use of non-European as well as European exemplars provides a wealth of fruitful comparative material, shedding new light on the relationship between medieval warfare and high-level identities.

War and society --- History --- Collective identities. --- Ethnicity. --- Medieval warfare. --- global medieval history. --- War and society. --- Military history, Medieval. --- Military history, Medieval

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"Holy war and just war are unfortunately not only keywords for recondite excursions into the past, but equally for problems of the present. This applies as well for the attempts of rulers to justify war through state or ruling ideology but also on religious grounds, whether from conviction or in order to cloak economic and political interests. The present volume summarizes the results of a conference held in Vienna, which the editors, Johannes Koder and Ioannis Stouraitis, hosted in May of 2011. The symposium was held in the context of a research project with the topic "Holy War? A study on Byzantine perceptions and concepts of war and peace in the period from the late 11th to the early 13th century." This project was housed at the Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Vienna. The arc of the presentation topics spanned chronologically from seventh to the fifteenth century and thematically from the Christian and Islamic legitimation of war ("crusade", "holy war") to late antique and medieval imperial ideology to the motivations which were offered or imposed upon soldiers and civilian populations in order to make them amenable to the sorrow, sacrifices and privations which are the accompaniments of war: the promises of worldly rewards were complemented by the expectation of recompense in the afterlife. The results--many are new, some surprising--at one level reference the medieval period and its late antique intellectual foundations and are yet, in their critical evaluation of the ideological basis of war, of astonishing contemporary relevance."--Publisher's website.

Theological anthropology --- Christian sociology --- Christian literature --- Latin literature --- Civilization --- Anthropologie théologique --- Sociologie religieuse --- Littérature chrétienne --- Littérature latine --- Civilisation --- Christianity --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Roman influences --- Christianisme --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Influence romaine --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome --- Empire byzantin --- History, Military. --- Religion. --- Politics and government. --- Histoire militaire --- Religion --- Politique et gouvernement --- War --- Religious aspects --- Congresses. --- History of doctrines. --- Roman influences. --- History, Military --- Congresses --- Christianity. --- Byzantine Empire. --- Conferences - Meetings --- Anthropologie théologique --- Littérature chrétienne --- Littérature latine --- War - Religious aspects - Christianity - Congresses. --- Theological anthropology - Christianity - History of doctrines. --- Christian sociology - History. --- Christian literature - History and criticism. --- Latin literature - History and criticism. --- Civilization - Roman influences. --- Byzance --- Guerre --- Byzantine Empire - History, Military - Congresses --- Byzantine Empire - History, Military. --- Rome - Religion. --- Rome - History. --- Rome - Politics and government.

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"The transition zone between Africa, Asia and Europe was the most important intersection of human mobility in the medieval period. The present volume for the first time systematically covers migration histories of the regions between the Mediterranean and Central Asia and between Eastern Europe and the Indian Ocean in the centuries from Late Antiquity up to the early modern era. Within this framework, specialists from Byzantine, Islamic, Medieval and African history provide detailed analyses of specific regions and groups of migrants, both elites and non-elites as well as voluntary and involuntary. Thereby, also current debates of migration studies are enriched with a new dimension of deep historical time. Contributors are: Alexander Beihammer, Lutz Berger, Florin Curta, Charalampos Gasparis, George Hatke, Dirk Hoerder, Johannes Koder, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Lucian Reinfandt, Youval Rotman, Yannis Stouraitis, Panayiotis Theodoropoulos, and Myriam Wissa".

History. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 --- Africans --- Asians --- Europeans --- Human beings --- Migrations

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Examining ideas, beliefs and practices of identification in the medieval East Roman world.

Identity (Psychology) --- Ideology --- Philosophy --- History --- HISTORY / Ancient / Rome. --- To 1500 --- Byzantine Empire --- Empire byzantin --- Politics and government. --- Politique et gouvernement.