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  • Five - Alternatives to Commonwealth

  • from I - Patterns, Paradigms, Scholarship
  • Edited by Elizabeth S. Bolman, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, University of Oklahoma, Jack Tannous, Princeton University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    Worlds of Byzantium
    Published online:
    18 October 2024
    Print publication:
    17 October 2024, pp 98-120

  • Summary

    Abstract:The Byzantine Commonwealth has been used as a descriptive category, a tool ofanalysis, and a framework for understanding (and dividing) the medieval world since its creationin the 1970s by Dmitri Obolensky. This article examines the scholarship on the ideaof ByzantineCommonwealth, both positive and negative that have been put forth over the intervening fiftyyears.Following this examination, the article suggests alternatives to this still pervasive ideawhich might expressin new wayssome of the key realities of interaction in this medieval space.Those alternatives include utilizing kinship structures as well as world system theory to look atthe relationship between Byzantium and the medieval eastern European world.