The Medieval Mediterranean, peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500 ;
Volume Designation
volume 105
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-473) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Part I. The Byzantine classification of the Turks -- Part II. Byzantine onomastics: problems of method -- Part III. The "Persians" and the "Scythians" -- Part IV. The Byzantine Turks in the Balkans -- Part V. The noble lineages -- Part VI. Assimilation tools -- Part VII. Asians in the Byzantine Pontos.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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In 'The Byzantine Turks, 12041461' 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.