Failed Nations and Usable Pasts: Byzantium as Transcendence in the Political Writings of Iakovos Pitzipios Bey
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15 juin 2021
- doi: 10.4000/books.efa.9400
- isbn: 9782869582538
- eisbn: 9782869585300
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religion identité culturelle civilisation histoire culturelle péninsule balkanique historiographie byzantine History HIS010000 HBJDSujets proches
Frontier troubles Conation Volition Cetanā Eyesight Seeing Sight Ottoman Empire Hours (Time) Group dynamics Association Groups, Social Religious denominations Religion, Comparative Denominations, Religious Religions, Comparative World religions Comparative religion Religion, Primitive Asia, South West Eastern Mediterranean Levant East (Middle East) Fertile Crescent Near East Mediterranean Region, Eastern Northern Tier (Middle East) Southwest Asia South West Asia Asia, Western Asia, Southwest Mideast Life--Philosophy Annals Article Biblical cosmogony Civilisation Barbarism Concentration (Psychology) Religion and ethicsCiter ce document
Jack Fairey, « Failed Nations and Usable Pasts: Byzantium as Transcendence in the Political Writings of Iakovos Pitzipios Bey », École française d’Athènes, ID : 10.4000/books.efa.9400
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The subject of this article is the place of Byzantium in the political and historiographical thought of the “Byzantine Union” (Vyzantini Enosis), a failed nationalist association in the mid-19th- century Ottoman Empire. Whereas other nationalist movements sought to divide the Near East into a collection of ethnic states, the Byzantine Union called instead for the creation of a reunified and reformed Byzantine Empire which would embrace all of the various peoples and religions of the region. In its attempts to provide an ideological basis for this common future, the Union constructed a unique vision of the shared Byzantine past which differed strongly from the standard historiographies of the time. Something of the origins and development of the Byzantine Union will be described, with particular attention paid to the life and writings of the society’s ideologue, Iakovos Pitzipios (1802-ca 1869).