Subjects and Space in Roman and Serbian Lands
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
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Ideology remains one of the most used yet rarely defined concepts in Byzantine and Medieval Serbian Studies. Focusing on the decades following the Crusaders’ conquest of Byzantine lands, this book bridges modern theory and interpretation of medieval texts to redefine ideology as a practice of performative storytelling. Vukašinović rereads overlooked narratives from Nicaea, Epiros and Serbia—from court orations and hagiographies to monastic donations and juridical opinions—not as mere representations of events, but as social acts that shaped the world. Developing a model of how humans become subjects and produce space, the study reveals how emperors, bishops, monks, and peasants alike acted as storytellers, heroes and agents of history. It argues for diverse forms of social and political agency, challenging conventional notions of Byzantine fragmentation and Serbian independence.
Milan Vukašinović is a Historian and Researcher in Greek and Byzantine Studies at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Byzantine Narrative – How (Not) to Do Things with Ideology
Part I: Narrative Subjectivity
1. Putting the ‘I’ into Ideology? Theoretical Framework
2. Doing Rhetoric, Making Emperors: Choniates and Mesarites
3. Blurring the Lines of Power: Akropolites and Jacob of Bulgaria
4. The Centre of the Circle: Laskaris and Blemmydes
5. Political Collectivity: Epirot Rulers and Bishops
6. Legal Collectivity: Epirot Subjects and Judges
7. In a Single Voice: Anatolian Peasants
8. Getting the Father Out of Serbia: The Lives of Simeon
9. Independence or Integration? The Life of Sava
Part II: Narrative Spatiality
10. Storytelling and the Production of Space: Theoretical Framework
11. Bodies Unbound: Travelling Practices of Mesarites, Blemmydes and Domentijan
12. Epistolary Nodes: Framing the Space in Hagiography
13. The Making of Chilandar I: Narrative Foundations
14. The Making of Chilandar II: Narrative Colonies
15. Producing the Rural: Narrative, Archives and Space around Lembiotissa
16. Narrating Urbanity, Inside and Out: Laskaris, Apokaukos and Chomatenos
Beyond the Commonplace: Making the Byzantine Worlds
Bibliography
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.7.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Byzantine Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 table |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-0720-6 / 1399507206 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-0720-2 / 9781399507202 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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