The Concept of the Elect Nation in Byzantium - Eshel, Shay (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018)
Introduction -- The elect nation concept as part of the Byzantine response to the calamities of the seventh century -- The institutional adoption and use of the elect nation concept from Heraklios to Leo III -- The elect nation concept as an identity element of the embattled Byzantine society, seventh-ninth centuries -- The effect of the iconoclast controversy upon the Byzantine elect nation concept -- The Macedonian dynasty and the expanding empire, ninth-tenth centuries -- Two concepts of election, influence and competition : Byzantium and the Franks during the Crusades -- Summary and conclusions.
Keywords: Election (Theology)Byzantine Empire--History.Byzantine Empire--Church history