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Roman Identity from the Arab Conquests to the Triumph of Orthodoxy

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Authors:
  1. Douglas Whalin

    1. Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA

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  • Explores how boundaries and other markers of belonging to the Roman group changed in response to the changes created by the emergence of Islam in the early seventh century
  • Engages with a variety of primary sources, including hagiography and historiography in Greek, Syriac and Latin
  • Contextualizes these sources within recent scholarship, for example by Conant, Kaldellis and Stouraitis on similar problems in different places or times

Part of the book series: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture (NABHC)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Douglas Whalin
    Pages 1-8

  3. Problems with Early Medieval Romanness

    • Douglas Whalin
    Pages 9-53

  4. Formal and Informal Institutions

    • Douglas Whalin
    Pages 55-114

  5. Frontier Saints

    • Douglas Whalin
    Pages 115-147

  6. Romans, Christians, and Barbarians

    • Douglas Whalin
    Pages 149-198

  7. Social Identities

    • Douglas Whalin
    Pages 199-263

  8. Epilogue

    • Douglas Whalin
    Pages 265-272

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 273-315
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About this book

This book asks how the inhabitants and neighbours of the Eastern Roman Empire understand their identity as Romans in the centuries following the emergence of Islam as a world-religion. Its answers lie in exploring the nature of change and continuity of social structures, self-representation, and boundaries as markers of belonging to the Roman group in the period from circa AD 650 to 850. Early medieval Romanness was integral to the Roman imperial project; its local utility as an identifier was shaped by a given community’s relationship with Constantinople, the capital of the Roman state. This volume argues that there was fundamental continuity of Roman identity from Late Antiquity through these centuries into later periods. Many transformations which are ascribed to the Romans of this era have been subjectively assigned by outsiders, separated by time or space, and are not born out by the sources. This finding dovetails with other recent historical works re-evaluating the early medieval Eastern Roman polity and its ideology. 


Authors and Affiliations

  • Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA

    Douglas Whalin

About the author



Douglas Whalin is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Christian Oriental Research (ICOR) at the Catholic University of America. He earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge, and was a DFG stipendiary fellow with the Center for Advanced Studies “Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages” at the University of Tübingen. He has published works on the social history of the Late Antique and Early Medieval Mediterranean world.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Roman Identity from the Arab Conquests to the Triumph of Orthodoxy

  • Authors: Douglas Whalin

  • Series Title: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60906-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60905-4Published: 23 January 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60908-5Published: 23 January 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60906-1Published: 22 January 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2730-9363

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9371

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 315

  • Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Medieval Europe, Cultural History, History of Religion

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