Beschreibung
The Mediterranean has long been a space of interaction between cultures which shaped and reshaped their identities and traditions. How these often competing communities questioned, structured and performed their own beliefs and religious practices by shaping their orthodoxies and disclosing heresies commends a persistent and multifaceted interdisciplinary research. The present volume gathers eleven selected papers from the fields of Late Antique, Byzantine, Ottoman, Western Medieval, Caucasus, and Jewish studies on themes that reflect on and address the complex formation and development of cultural, intellectual and religious identities in the Mediterranean.
Autorenportrait
Nikoloz Aleksidze is a Research Associate at Faculty of History at the University of Oxford (The Cult of Saints research project) and a Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford. He also worked as the Dean of Social Sciences at the Free University of Tbilisi (Georgia). In 2013 he defended his doctoral thesis at the Oriental Institute, Oxford. He has prepared a monograph, The Schism: An Interpretive Schema of Caucasian History, which is currently submitted for review. Meanwhile he is working on a monograph which examines various aspects of religion and political thought in medieval and nineteenth-century Caucasus.
