Εξειδίκευση τύπου :	Κεφάλαιο βιβλίου
Τίτλος:	The Partitioned Space of the Byzantine Peloponnese: From history to political and mythical exploitation
Δημιουργός/Συγγραφέας:	[EL] Λεοντσίνη, Μαρία[EN] Leontsini, Maria [EL] Αναγνωστάκης, Ηλίας[EN] Anagnostakis, Ilias
Επιμελητής έκδοσης:	Veikou, Myrto Nilsson, Ingela James, Liz
Εκδότης:	Brill
Τόπος έκδοσης:	Boston Leiden
Ημερομηνία:	2022
Γλώσσα:	Αγγλικά
ISBN:	978-90-04-51874-2 978-90-04-52300-5
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004523005_023
Περίληψη:	The space of the Peloponnese has always had its own particularity: it is, in fact, almost an island, a paene insula, in other words, a peninsula that has since mythical times taken its name as a whole from its north–western part, and this designation remained consistent up to the Middle Ages. This area of land, almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland, was named Peloponnesos, ‘the island of Pelops’, after the ancient king of Pisa, a town in the north-western part of the peninsula It became the dominant name, although, as appropriate, it was also called the land of the Argives. From Hellenistic and Roman times onwards, the north–west part was also known as Achaia and came under the administration of the Roman province of Achaia, which included further territories in the Hellenic Peninsula. During the Byzantine period, it bore both names, the Peloponnese and Achaia, and from the 13th century onwards the appellation Morea prevailed, a name originating most probably from Elis, an area in the western Peloponnese. This introductory remark on the peninsula's naming in relation to its spatial partitioning is an essential supplement to what we shall discuss below concerning the formulation of the concept about the two separate Peloponnesian parts, during the middle Byzantine era, which recognised the eastern part as pure (καθαρεῦον) and the western one as Slavic-occupied, commixed (σύμμικτον) and thus implicitly alleging that, in contrast to the eastern part, this was the “impure” one. As nomenclature signifies, a section of the partitioned space of the peninsula, specifically the north–west, gave over time its name to the whole, with whatever that entailed in each era as a political, economic or cultural dynamic of this part in relation to the entirety of the region. This study intends to assess how some special attributes were employed to project the Peloponnese as a space divided into two parts, and subsequently reevaluated notions on population movement and space drawn from antique literature.
Τίτλος πηγής δημοσίευσης:	Spatialities of Byzantine Culture from the Human Body to the Universe
Σελίδες:	384-399
Σειρά δημοσίευσης:	The Medieval Mediterranean
Αρ. σειράς:	133
Θεματική Κατηγορία:	[EL] Μεσαιωνική Ελλάδα, Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία 323-1453[EN] Medieval Greece. Byzantine Empire, 323-1453
Λέξεις-Κλειδιά:	Settlements Αρχιτεκτονική - Οικιστικό περιβάλλον
Τοπική Κάλυψη:	Peloponnese
Χρονική Κάλυψη:	Byzantine era
Κάτοχος πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων:	Leontsini, Maria Anagnostakis, Ilias
Εμφανίζεται στις συλλογές:	Τομέας Βυζαντινών Ερευνών - Επιστημονικό έργο