Negotiation, Collaboration and Conflict in Ancient and Medieval Communities [Paperback]

Difference and Essentialism: The Polemics of Physiognomy in the Later Roman Empire / Facing the Barbarian. Vessels in the Form of the Ethnic Other in Roman Ostia, and Beyond / Cultural borrowing, appropriation, or forgery in a multicultural context  Ostian artefacts with an Egyptian touch / The Persecution of Illicit Talk in Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-Century Languedoc / The Negotiation and Display of Imperial and Provincial Identities in Cos: the Case of Gaius Stertinius Xenophon / Roman-Persian Wars in Roman Historiography, from Livy to Procopius: Expressions of Orientalism? / Names and identities of Greek elites with Roman citizenship / Neighbours and Strangers? Ostrogoths and Italians during the Gothic War / Jewish Inhabitants in Ancient Ostia / Differing Displays of Dacian Identity / From Byzantine Gentile to Florentine Jew: The Transformation of an Exemplar Conversion / At the end of the world and in the throats of our enemies  Latin Europeans in Late Medieval Asia / Reflections on Neighbors or Strangers

Focusing on forms of interaction and methods of negotiation in multicultural, multi-ethnic and multilingual contexts during Antiquity and the Middle Ages, this volume examines questions of social and cultural interaction within and between diverse ethnic communities.

Focusing on forms of interaction and methods of negotiation in multicultural, multi-ethnic and multilingual contexts during Antiquity and the Middle Ages, this volume examines questions of social and cultural interaction within and between diverse ethnic communities. Toleration and coexistence were essential in all late antique and medieval societies and their communities. However, power struggles and prejudices could give rise to suspicion, conflict and violence. All of these had a central infllóg