Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World

Examining ideas, beliefs and practices of identification in the medieval East Roman world Approaches ideology and identity in the Byzantine world from different perspectives, top-down, bottom-up, and outside-in, and from various disciplinary perspectives including historical, literary, art-historical and archaeologicalExplores what makes discourses ideological by giving them a central function in the promotion of power relations and interests on the macro-level of society as well as on the micro