This volume brings together papers focused on the issues of dissidence and persecutions in early and middle Byzantine period â from Constantine to late eleventh century. They explore a variety of problems on the imperial centre and periphery such as: the Byzantine and Jewish relations, the iconoclastic dispute, papal-imperial relations and frictions, loyalty and dissidence on the imperial periphery, etc. The aim of the volume is to explore different perspectives of dissent and persecution, the reasons driving dissent and causing persecutions, as well as their perceptions and depictions in the Byzantine literature.
Danijel Džino is Senior Lecturer at Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published extensively on Dalmatia in antiquity and medieval period, including Becoming Slav, Becoming Croat: Identity transformations in post-Roman and early medieval Dalmatia (Brill, 2010), and From Justinian to Branimir: The Making of the Middle Ages in Dalmatia (Routledge, 2021).
Ryan W. Strickler, PhD (2019 Macquarie University) is Lecturer in Classics at the Australian National University. He has published on questions, forgery, religion and identity in the late-antique Byzantine world.
The audience of this volume includes libraries and scholars with an interest in Roman and Byzantine history, literature, religious studies, art history and culture as well as students of the late-antique and medieval Mediterranean world.