What is it about?
In order to understand the geographical logic of the Byzantine Empire, it is necessary to know the elements of the geography of the eastern Mediterranean. During the New Age, it played a dual role in imperial conquests, favoured the networking of the newly conquered territories and, at the same time, represented the frontier for further imperial expansion
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Why is it important?
Compared to its ancient predecessors, and it is difficult to understand this "major setback in geography" without being familiar with the "wider picture". It can be understood as a geographical logic that is essentially determined by three groups of factors: the system of philosophical-theological ideas, the mysticism of biblical ideas, and purely local geographical factors.
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"A great decline in geographical thinking”, whereby the geographical imagination of Byzantium and the world will be clarified through the analysis of numerous geographical sources, the philosophical works of Aristotle and St. Augustine and Ptolemy's geography. These representations of medieval geography / cosmography, as exemplified by Byzantium, will be viewed through Bible sources and works in different works [16, 25]. Finally, the elements of the settlement-demographic development of Europe and the general political and geographical characteristics of the empire would allow a more complete understanding of the geographical logic of the Byzantine Empire
dr Goran GM Mutabdzija
University of East Sarajevo, Faculty of Philosophy
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This page is a summary of: BYZANTIUM: THE GEOGRAPHICAL LOGIC OF THE EMPIRE, May 2020, Geobalcanica Society,
DOI: 10.18509/gbp.2020.94.
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