‎Yaniv Fox, Erica Buchberger (eds)‎
‎Inclusion and Exclusion in Mediterranean Christianities, 400-800‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, vii + 293 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9782503581132.‎

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‎Summary The fifth to the ninth centuries were a formative period around the Mediterranean, in which new forces were redefining traditional social divisions. This volume will look at these centuries through the lens of inclusion and exclusion as social forces at work on the self, the community, and society as a whole. For late antique and early medieval societies, inclusion and exclusion were the means of redrawing the boundaries of cultural and political discourse, and ultimately, of deciding how resources - material, spiritual, and intellectual - were allocated. This is the first of two volumes to explore inclusion and exclusion as processes affecting Mediterranean communities. Contributions to the present volume look at how distinctions were fostered through both space and text, along ethnic and religious lines, and at the level of both ecumenical councils and individual friendships. By examining a wide range of social and cultural phenomena, from historiography and political partisanship to private religious worship and the performance of the feast, the chapters of this volume illustrate the exceptional range of ways that late antique and early medieval people negotiated their place in a changing world, and brought a new one into being. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction - YANIV FOX Part I: Literate Communities and their Texts Frankish Redaction or Roman Exemplar? Revisions and Interpolations in the Text Liber Pontificalis - CARMELA VIRCILLO FRANKLIN Reading Sin: Textual and Spatial Exclusion of Scholarly Communities in Late Antiquity - DIRK ROHMANN Beowulf and the Textual Exclusion of Vikings in the Carolingian world - SHANE BJORNLIE Part II: The Internal Dialogue of the Church The Theme of Late-Ancient Inner-Church Discord Reconsidered - YONATAN LIVNEH Inclusion and Exclusion in the Writings of Anthony of Choziba - DANIEL NEARY Constructing a Church of Councils: The Heresy of Conciliar Rejection in Eighth-Century Palestine - PETER SCHADLER Part III: Persecution and Dissent Excluding Heretics: Intolerant Bishops and Tolerant Vandals - ÉRIC FOURNIER Ethnicity, Christianity and Groups: Rethinking Gothic Homoian Christianity in the Post-Imperial West - ROBIN WHELAN Gothic Identity and the 'Othering' of Jews in Seventh-Century Spain - ERICA BUCHBERGER The Pogrom that Time Forgot: The Ecumenical Anti-Jewish Campaign of 632 and its Impact - THOMAS J. MACMASTER Part IV: Elite Networks Aristocrats, Christians, and Barbarians at the Banquet: Food Practices, Inclusion and Exclusion in Fifth-Century Gaul According to Sidonius Apollinaris - EMMANUELLE RAGA Inclusion and Exclusion of 'Barbarians' in the Roman Elites of the Fifth Century: A Case of Aspar's Family - ALEKSANDER PARADZINìSKI *** Conclusions - CHRIS WICKHAM Index‎