Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes

Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries)
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41566-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 119, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) focuses on the perceptions of geopolitical and cultural change, which was triggered by the arrival of Turkish Muslim groups into the territories of the Byzantine Empire at the end of the eleventh century, through intersecting stories transmitted in Turkish Muslim warrior epics and dervish vitas, and late Byzantine martyria. It examines the Byzantines’ encounters with the newcomers in a shared story-world, here called “land of Rome,” as well as its perception, changing geopolitical and cultural frontiers, and in relation to these changes, the shifts in identity of the people inhabiting this space. The study highlights the complex relationship between the character of specific places and the cultural identities of the people who inhabited them.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Kitapç&

Kitapçi Bayri, Buket

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Antike Kriegsführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Maps

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

1 Sources

2 Scholarship

2.1 Nomadization

2.2 Islamization

2.3 “Romanization”

3 Organization of the Book

1 Warriors

1 Introduction

2 Part 1: The Battalname

2.1 Land of Rome and Frontiers

2.2 Us

2.3 Them

2.4 Byzantines: Fact and Fiction

3 Part 2: The Danismendname

3.1 Land of Rome and Frontiers

3.2 Them

3.3 Byzantines: Fact and Fiction

3.4 Us

3.5 Social and Cultural Frontiers: Love Affairs and Food as Identity Markers

3.5.1 Love Affairs

3.5.2 Food, Feasting, and Fasting: The Creation of Boundaries

3.5.3 Meat

3.5.4 Sugar and Sweet

3.5.5 Fish, Seafood, and Wine

3.6 Who Are You?

2 Martyrs

1 Introduction

2 Part 1: The Story of the Stories: Late Byzantine Martyrs and Martyria

2.1 Nicene Empire (1204–1261)

2.1.1 Thirteen Monks of Cyprus (m. 1231) (BHG 1198)

2.2 Reign of Andronikos II Palaiologos (1282–1328)

2.2.1 Niketas the Younger (m. December 1282) (BHG 2302, 2303)

2.2.2 Michael of Alexandria (m. ca. 1311–1325) (BHG 2273)

2.3 Liberation of Philadelphia (March 7, 1348) (BHG 801q): A Dissident Text

2.4 Hesychast Patriarchs (1347–1397)

2.4.1 Theodore the Younger (m. 1347–ca. 1369) (BHG 2431)

2.4.2 Three Martyrs of Vilnius (m. 1347) (BHG 2035)

2.4.3 Anthimos, Metropolitan of Athens (m. 1371) (BHG 2029)

2.5 Eve of the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1437–1439)

2.5.1 George of Adrianople (m. 1437) (BHG 2160)

3 Part 2: Land of Rome, Frontiers, Cities, and Us and Them

3.1 Land of Rome

3.2 Frontiers: Borders of the Christian Roman Oikoumene

3.3 Cities

3.4 Us

3.5 Them

3 Dervishes

1 Sari Saltuk, the Nomad Dervish

2 Land of Rome

3 Frontiers

4 Us and Them

4.1 Gazi

4.2 Turk

4.3 Rumi

Conclusion

Maps

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Buket Kitapçi Bayri, Ph.D. (2010), Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Bogaziçi University, is senior fellow at Koç University, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM).