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Paperback. 4to. (25 x 20 cm). In English. 350 p., ills. Identitiy and the other in Byzantium: Papers From the Fourth International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium. Contents: Abbreviations.; Acknowledgements.; Preface / ÖMER M. KOÇ.; Opening Speech / NEVRA NECIPOGLU. KORAY DURAK and IVANA JEVTIC / Identity and the Other in Byzantine Studies: An Introduction.; IDENTIFYING THE OTHER: ETHNICITY, CLOTHING, BODY: NICHOLAS DE LANGE / The Byzantine Jewish Other ANTHONY KALDELLIS / Ethnicity and Clothing in Byzantium MAJA KOMINKO / Changing Habits and Disappearing Monsters - Ethnography betvveen Classical and Late Antiquity PAMELA ARMSTRONG / Ethnicity and Inclusiveness in the Development of Religious Cults: Saint Christopherthe Dog-Headed and Saint George.; IDENTITY AND THE OTHER IN SPACE: ARIETTA PAPACONSTANTINOU / The Desert and the City: The Rhetoric of Savagery and Civitization in Some Early Byzantine Narratives GÜNDER VARINLIOGLU / "Imagine There Is No (Is)land": Conceptualizing Byzantine Islands in Southern Asia Minör.; BUKET KITAPÇI BAYRI / Byzantine Universalism and Patris: Geographic Identity Markers in the Late Byzantine Martyria.; IDENTITY AND THE OTHER IN MEMORY: LYNN JONES / Visual Evidence for the Mutability of Identity in the Middle Byzantine Period RUSTAM SHUKUROV / The Byzantine Concepts of Iran: Cultural Memory and Its Reactualization.; ON THE MARGINS OF ORTHODOXY: BELIEF CARVED IN STONE: B. YELDA OLCAY UÇKAN AND SEÇKIN EVCIM / The Other Beliefs in Byzantine Phrygia and Their Reflections in Rock-Cut Architecture SERCAN YANDIM AYDIN / Marginalizing Traditional Religious Groups, Cults, and Beliefs in the Early Patristic Period: Asceticism in Phrygia and Lykaonia HENRY MAGUIRE / Magic in Byzantine Pottery: The Other Within.; MANIFESTATION OF IDENTITY THROUGH PATRONAGE: SCOTT REDFORD / Rum Seljuk Emir Mübarizeddin Ertokus and His Madrasa: Reading Identity through Architectural Patronage IOANNA RAPTI / Art from Another Byzantium: The Sculptural Decoration of the Church of Bghno Noravank' SUNA ÇAGAPTAY / The Laskarid Moment: Building an Empire with Constantinople in Mind. APPROPRIATING THE OTHER: ALICIA WALKER / Courtly Objects, Courtly Identities: Middle Byzantine Luxury Arts and the Material Culture of Elite Leisure.; BRIGITTE PITARAKIS / Jewelers, Coppersmiths, and Clientele: Between Byzantium and the Arab World.; Index.