The Byzantine Turks, 1204-1461 /

The Byzantine Turks, 1204-1461 /

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Author / Creator:Shukurov, R. (Rustam), author.
Imprint:Leiden : Brill, [2016]
Description:xiii, 513 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:The Medieval Mediterranean, peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500 ; volume 105
Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 105.
Subject:
Turkic peoples -- Byzantine Empire.
Turkic peoples.
Byzantine Empire -- History -- 1081-1453.
Byzantine Empire.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10812574
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ISBN:9789004305120
9004305122
9789004307759
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-473) and indexes.
Summary:In 'The Byzantine Turks, 1204-1461' Rustam Shukurov offers an account of the Turkic minority in Late Byzantium including the Nicaean, Palaiologan, and Grand Komnenian empires. The demography of the Byzantine Turks and the legal and cultural aspects of their entrance into Greek society are discussed in detail. Greek and Turkish bilingualism of Byzantine Turks and Tourkophonia among Greeks were distinctive features of Byzantine society of the time. Basing his arguments upon linguistic, social, and cultural evidence found in a wide range of Greek, Latin, and Oriental sources, Rustam Shukurov convincingly demonstrates how Oriental influences on Byzantine life led to crucial transformations in Byzantine mentality, culture, and political life. The study is supplemented with an etymological lexicon of Oriental names and words in Byzantine Greek.
Other form:Online version: Shukurov, R. (Rustam). Byzantine Turks, 1204-1461. Leiden : Brill, [2016] 9789004307759
Standard no.:9789004305120
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Byzantine Classification of the Turks
  • 1. On Byzantine Epistemology
  • 2. The Locative Criterion and the Theory of Climates
  • 3. Two-Part Classification: Genera and Species
  • 4. Generic Categories
  • 5. The Species
  • 6. The Concept ¿¿p¿¿i
  • 7. The Defects of the Method
  • 8. The Linguistic Criterion
  • 9. The Languages of the Turks
  • 10. Turks and Religious Identity
  • 11. Marriages with Non-Christians
  • 12. The Validity of Baptism
  • 2. Byzantine Onomasties: Problems of Method
  • 1. The Onomastic Database
  • 2. The West Byzantine Lands in the Database
  • 3. The Byzantine Pontos
  • 4. On Byzantine Patterns of Naming
  • 5. A Linguistic Problem
  • 6. The Problem of Generations
  • 7. Credibility of Anthroponymical Data
  • 8. "Scythian" and "Persian" Names
  • 3. The "Persians" and the "Scythians"
  • 1. Historical Background
  • 2. The "Scythians"
  • 3. The "Persians"
  • 4. The Byzantine "Persians" in 1204-1262
  • 5. The "Persian" Resettlement of 1262-1263
  • 6. Kaykawus' Family in Byzantium
  • 7. Kaykawus' People
  • 8. "Persian" Immigrations until the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century
  • 9. The Turkic Immigrants in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century
  • 10. The Last Byzantine Turks?
  • 10.1. Text
  • 10.2. Translation
  • 10.3. Commentary
  • 4. The Byzantine Turks in the Balkans
  • 1. Byzantine Macedonia
  • 2. The Lower Strymon and Serres
  • 3. Kalamaria in Western Chalkidike
  • 4. Eastern Chalkidike
  • 5. Berroia and Lake Giannitsa
  • 6. The Vardar Valley, Skopje, the Strumica
  • 7. Thessalonike and Other Localities
  • 8. Ethnic and Social Structure
  • 9. Constantinople and Some Other Regions
  • 10. A Note on Chronology
  • 11. The Problem of Merchants
  • 5. The Noble Lineages
  • 1. Constructing a "Family"
  • 2. The Gazes Families (I and II)
  • 3. The Melik/Melikes/Melek Family
  • 4. The Soultanos Family (I)
  • 5. The Soultanos Family (II)
  • 6. The Apelmene Family
  • 7. The Masgidas Families (I and II)
  • 8. The lagoupes Family
  • 9. The Anataulas Family
  • 6. Assimilation Tools
  • 1. The Motivation of the Turks
  • 2. An Opposite Example
  • 3. Christianization
  • 4. More on Inclusion and Exclusion
  • 5. Proprietors and Prenoiars
  • 6. Imperial Service
  • 7. Slaves, Servants, and Hostages
  • 8. Cultural Adaptation
  • 9. Turkic Minority?
  • 7. Asians in the Byzantine Pontos
  • 1. Oriental Names of the Pontos
  • 2. Nations and Tribes
  • 3. Social Standing
  • 4. The Pontic Nomads
  • 5. Christians and Crypto-Muslims
  • 6. Penetration of Asians into Trebizond
  • Appendix I. The Wives of Alexios II Grand Komnenos
  • Appendix II. The Marriages of the Grand Komnenoi with Muslims
  • 8. "Turkophonia" in Byzantium
  • 1. Byzantine Diglossia
  • 2. Oriental Borrowings
  • 3. Textiles
  • 4. Clothes and Household Items
  • 5. Spices, Delicacies, Medications
  • 6. Birds and Animals
  • 7. Trading Terminology
  • 8. Imperial Court and Military Terminology
  • 9. The Positive Image of the East
  • 10. Expanding the Horizon
  • 11. Diglossia and Place-Names
  • 12. Diglossia and the Redoubling of the World
  • 13. Evidence of Modern Greek
  • 14. Byzantine Turkophonia
  • 15. Latent Turkification
  • 16. Cultural Interchange and a Lethal Outcome
  • 9. Etymological Glossary
  • 1. Proper Names
  • 2. Appellatives
  • Epilogue
  • 1. The Turkic Minority
  • 2. Regional Features
  • 3. Cultural Transformation
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Greek and Slavonic Names and Terms
  • General Index

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