The Rulers of European Nomads and Early Mediaeval Byzantine Historiography
The Rulers of European Nomads and Early Mediaeval Byzantine Historiography
Author(s): Denis ChernienkoSubject(s): Cultural history, Ethnohistory, Political history, Middle Ages, Culture and social structure
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Byzantine narrative tradition; ethnical image; historical mythology; leadership; symbolical perception; great migration of peoples;
Summary/Abstract: The dynamics of socio-political evolution of nomadic societies depends on many internal and external factors, leadership being a special one amongst them. There was interrelation between the power of nomadic empires and their significant rulers. The investigation of ethno-symbolic content of leadership makes possible to present rulers of nomadicempires in three aspects: (a) as military and political rulers, or heads of “states”; (b) as representatives of collective ethnical images; (c) as multifunctional cultural symbols.
Journal: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 58/2005
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 171-178
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
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