Panspermía and the Romaíoi: performative ethnicity and the weaponisation of space in Byzantium’s post-Imperial networks, c.1190–1235

Thesis

This thesis addresses a roughly forty-five-year period of intense transition and change as witnessed by a single generation, and its reception by the one that followed. In the period of study (c.1190–c.1235), the unified political state of a predominantly Greek-speaking Orthodox people of the Medieval Roman Empire, known conventionally as Byzantium, fragmented into rival and often warring polities. Secession, particularism, and rebellion following the end of the direct imperial Komnenoi dynas...

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Authors: Websdale, NDC

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-ag7e6j642
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Nikaia; Epiros; late antique and Byzantine studies; fourth crusade; Byzantine Empire; sigillography; crusades; Komnenoi-Doukai; Greece; Komnenos; epistolography; performativity; Byzantine studies; Andronikos Komnenos; ethnicity studies; medieval; Bulgaria; Paphlagonia; epigraphy; Nicaea; Byzantium; Komnenoi
• Subjects: History; Fourth Crusade; Late Antique and Byzantine Studies; Seals, Byzantine; Epigraphy, Byzantine; Inscriptions; Byzantine literature; Crusades--13th-15th centuries