TY - CHAP
T1 - Hegemony, elitedom and ethnicity
T2 - “Armenians” in imperial Bari c.874-1071
AU - Matheou, Nicholas S.M.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Melus, rendered “Meles” in Greek sources, first appears in 1009 when he and a relative named Dattus rebelled against the east Roman governor-general, the katepano, taking Bari, Ascoli and Troia, before being defeated by a new katepano in 1011 and fleeing to the prince of Salerno. This chapter looks at the evidence for identified Armenians in east Roman Bari, and analyses their integration into local elitedom. In the most astute study to date Nina Garsoïan elucidated the many different forms of east Roman Armenianness, with the ethnic category able to cover often sharply differing actors and cultural stuff. There is no need to connect Barese actors to the inconclusive evidence for identified Armenians settling in imperial Italy and Sicily between the mid-sixth and mid-ninth centuries, since the late ninth-century east Roman revival provides the strongest conditions for actors entering the south.
AB - Melus, rendered “Meles” in Greek sources, first appears in 1009 when he and a relative named Dattus rebelled against the east Roman governor-general, the katepano, taking Bari, Ascoli and Troia, before being defeated by a new katepano in 1011 and fleeing to the prince of Salerno. This chapter looks at the evidence for identified Armenians in east Roman Bari, and analyses their integration into local elitedom. In the most astute study to date Nina Garsoïan elucidated the many different forms of east Roman Armenianness, with the ethnic category able to cover often sharply differing actors and cultural stuff. There is no need to connect Barese actors to the inconclusive evidence for identified Armenians settling in imperial Italy and Sicily between the mid-sixth and mid-ninth centuries, since the late ninth-century east Roman revival provides the strongest conditions for actors entering the south.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Italy-and-the-East-Roman-World-in-the-Medieval-Mediterranean-Empire-Cities/MacMaster-Matheou/p/book/9781138091313?_gl=1*ou7fdx*_ga*MTA2NzE1MTc3MS4xNjc4NDQ3MTY1*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTY3ODQ0OTk1OC4yLjEuMTY3ODQ1MDA4OS4wLjAuMA..
U2 - 10.4324/9781315108094-14-19
DO - 10.4324/9781315108094-14-19
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781138091313
SN - 9781032053875
T3 - Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
SP - 245
EP - 272
BT - Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean
A2 - MacMaster, Thomas J.
A2 - Matheou, Nicholas S.M.
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -