Mobility and Materiality in Byzantine-Islamic Relations, 7th to 12th Centuries (Studies in Byzantine Cultural History) - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1032375019 ISBN 13 : 9781032375014

Editeur : Routledge, 2026

Synopsis

Mobility and Materiality in Byzantine-Islamic Relations, 7th to 12th Centuries offers a fresh perspective on the medieval Eastern Mediterranean by exploring the movement of people, objects and ideas across boundaries, challenging established views of frontiers, commerce, ideology and identity in Byzantine-Islamic relations. Ranging from foodstuffs, ceramics and mosaics to clergy, artisans and the movement of words across languages, the volume follows the flows of exchange that linked a vast region extending from Constantinople, the Aegean and Anatolia to the Near East and the Mediterranean islands.

Against the background of anthropological theories of exchange, the fourteen contributors examine trade, diplomacy, migration, warfare, and religious and artistic exchange as interconnected processes that often overlapped and reinforced one another. At the same time, they explore mobility as a transformative force that reshaped societies, identities and cultural practices, while also altering the very people, objects and ideas in motion. Equally important is the volume’s engagement with recent approaches to materiality, which treat objects, infrastructures, landscapes and technologies as active participants in processes of interaction and change. Combining theoretical reflection with textual, archaeological, numismatic, sigillographic and art-historical evidence, this volume challenges conventional views of Byzantine-Islamic relations as interactions between isolated societies. Instead, it reveals a medieval Mediterranean shaped by exchange, mobility and materiality, which in turn were transformed by cultural frameworks and institutions such as states.

The volume will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of Byzantine Studies, Islamic Near Eastern Studies, Mediterranean Studies, mobility and materiality studies as well as frontier studies.

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À propos de l'auteur

Koray Durak is Associate Professor of History at Boğaziçi University, Turkey. He specialises in Byzantine-Islamic economic relations, the commercial history of Constantinople, Byzantine pharmacology and the history of Byzantine Studies in modern Turkey. His publications include ‘The commercial history of Trebizond and the region of Pontos from the seventh to the eleventh centuries’, Mediterranean Historical Review (2021), ‘Commercial Constantinople’, in The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople (2022), ‘Healing gifts: the role of diplomatic gift exchange in the movement of materia medica between the Byzantine and Islamic worlds’, in Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean (2024) and a monograph titled The Odyssey of Byzantine Studies in Turkey (2023).

Nevra Necipoğlu is Professor of History at Boğaziçi University, Turkey. She is a founding member and general secretary of the Turkish National Committee for Byzantine Studies since 2001. Her monograph Byzantium between the Ottomans and the Latins: Politics and Society in the Late Empire was published in 2009. She also edited and co-edited several books, including Byzantine Constantinople: Monuments, Topography and Everyday Life (2001), and published numerous articles on late Byzantine social and economic history, Byzantine-Seljuk and Byzantine-Ottoman relations, and the urban history of Constantinople and Thessalonike during the Palaiologan period. She is currently working on a monograph on the social topography of late Byzantine Constantinople.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1032375019
• ISBN 13: 9781032375014
• Reliure: Tapa dura
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 404
• Éditeur: Durak Koray, Necipoğlu Nevra
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible