Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium

This handbook represents a milestone in offering a survey of the vibrant surge of scholarship examining the numerous and oft-times fluctuating codes of identity that shaped and transformed Byzantium and its neighbours during the empire’s long life / This book will appeal to all those interested in the importance of identity in Byzantium, from gender, religion, ethnic, and regional identities / This book draws upon a wide range of disciplines across history, art, archaeology, and religion to provide an accurate representation of the state of the field both now and in its immediate future