The Concept of the Elect Nation in Byzantium.

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgments -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Chapter 1. Introduction -- ‎The Question of Byzantine Nationalism in Modern Research and the Approach of the Present Research -- ‎The Concept of the Elect Nation: Terminology -- ‎The Byzantine Concept of the Elect Nation: Religious and Historical Contexts -- ‎Chronological Framework -- ‎The State of Research -- ‎Theoretical Background: The Concept of the Elect Nation and Its Manifestations throughout History -- ‎Chapter 2. The Elect Nation Concept as Part of the Byzantine Response to the Calamities of the Seventh Century -- ‎Evaluation of the Elect Nation Motifs in the Works of Antiochos Strategios and Theodore the Synkellos -- ‎The Akathistos Hymn, Proem II -- ‎The Elect Nation Concept and Seventh-Century Byzantine Reponses to the Muslim Conquest -- ‎Chapter 3. The Institutional Adoption and Use of the Elect Nation Concept, from Heraklios to Leo III -- ‎The Elect Nation Concept and Heraklian Ideology -- ‎The Elect Nation Concept in Canonical and Imperial Reform Legislation: The Council in Trullo and the Ecloga -- ‎Chapter 4. The Elect Nation Concept as an Identity Element of the Embattled Byzantine Society, Seventh-Ninth Centuries -- ‎The Sermesians and Justinian II's 'Peculiar People' -- ‎Arab and Russian Invasions of the Black Sea Coasts in the Life of St George of Amastris, Eighth-Ninth Centuries -- ‎Photios' Homilies Concerning the Russian Siege of Constantinople in 860 -- ‎Chapter 5. The Effect of the Iconoclast Controversy upon the Byzantine Elect Nation Concept -- ‎The Iconoclast Controversy and the Biblical Model -- ‎National Elements within the Polemical Discourse of the Iconoclast Era -- ‎State Religion versus Universal Christianity -- ‎Chapter 6. The Macedonian Dynasty and the Expanding Empire, Ninth-Tenth Centuries -- ‎Basil I's Use of the Elect Nation Concept.

‎The Wars against the Muslim World, Holy War and the Byzantine Elect Nation Concept, Ninth-Tenth Centuries -- ‎Brothers in the Covenant or Gentiles? The Elect Nation Concept and the Christianization of Eastern Europe: The Bulgarian Case Study -- ‎Chapter 7. Two Concepts of Election, Influence and Competition: Byzantium and the Franks during the Crusades -- ‎Evolution of the Frankish Election Concept from Charlermagne to the Twelfth Century -- ‎Evolution of the Byzantine and Frankish Elect Nation Concepts: Influences and Collisions -- ‎Chapter 8. Summary and Conclusions -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Primary Sources -- ‎Secondary Literature -- ‎Index.

In The Concept of the Elect Nation in Byzantium, Shay Eshel shows how the Old Testament model of the ancient Israelites was a prominent factor in the evolution of Roman-Byzantine national awareness between the 7th and 13th centuries.

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