Gebundenes Buch

Violence and Community

Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World

Herausgeber: Xydopoulos, Ioannis K.; Tounta, Eleni; Vlassopoulos, Kostas

Beschreibung

While various aspects of violence (warfare, murder, theft, piracy) have been long studied on their own, there has been little effort to study violence as a unified field and to explore its role in community formation. This volume examines the historiography of the study of violence in antiquity and highlights a number of important paradoxes of violence. It explores the nexus between wealth, power and the passions by focusing on three major aspects that link violence and community: the attempts of communities to regulate violence through law, the constitutive role of violence in communal identities, and the ways in which communities dealt with violence in regard to private and public space, and territories.

Autor

Ioannis K. Xydopoulos is an Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek History at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His publications include Social and Economic Relations between Macedonians and the Other Greeks (2006) and The Perception of Ancient Thracians in Classical Historiography (2007). Kostas Vlassopoulos is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Crete. His publications include Unthinking the Greek Polis: Ancient Greek History beyond Eurocentrism (2007), Politics: Antiquity and its Legacy (2010) and Greeks and Barbarians (2013). Eleni Tounta is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her publications include The Western sacrum imperium and the Byzantine Empire (2008), Usurping Ritual (with Dr. Gerald Schwedler, 2010) and Medieval Mirrors of Power: Historians and Narratives in the Norman South of Italy (2012).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781472448323
• ISBN-10: 1472448324
• Artikelnr.: 48315274