Union in Separation: Diasporic Groups and Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean (1100-1800)

by David Jacoby, Heinrich Lang, Alexander D. Beihammer, et al.

Union in Separation presents a series of case studies on diasporic groups in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean and Black Sea regions. It explores how Armenian, Byzantine/Greek, Florentine, Genoese, Hospitaller, Jewish, Mamluk, and Venetian communities characterized by diasporic identities and inserted into local contexts navigated religious and socio-ethnic boundaries as well as other categories of difference.The volume draws on a wide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8867284355
• ISBN13: 9788867284351
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Viella
• Length: 821 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"