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- Title
DIE ERFORSCHUNG DER KOLLEKTIVE IDENTITÄT IN BYZANZ IM VERGLEICH ZU WESTEUROPA UND DER ISLAMISCHEN WELT: PARALLELEN UND UNTERSCHIEDE IN DER KONSTRUKTION VON „OST" UND „WEST"* IM VERGLEICH ZU WESTEUROPA UND DER ISLAMISCHEN WELT: PARALLELEN UND UNTERSCHIEDE IN DER KONSTRUKTION VON „OST" UND „WEST"*
- Authors
MAVROUDI, MARIA
- Abstract
This article surveys the last hundred years of scholarship on individual and collective selfhood in the disciplines dedicated to the European, Byzantine, and Arabic Middle Ages. To keep the project circumscribed, it focuses on the expression of the "national" and the "individual" self through language and literature as embedded in concrete social, economic, and political circumstances. The older, bigger, and more mature field among the three (the study of the European Middle Ages) provided the other two with model questions and methods of answering them. The purpose of the paper is to identify where and why these three scholarly disciplines adopted similar approaches and conclusions, as well as where and why they did not. This is offered as a tool through which to test whether "East" and "West" are best understood as distinct civilizational blocks that can be evaluated and ranked in terms of their importance for and moral impact on world history.
- Publication
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2023, Vol 60, Issue 1, p247
- ISSN
0584-9888
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2298/ZRVI2360247M