Two Paradoxes of Border Identity: Michael VIII Palaiologos and Constantine Doukas Nestongos in the Sultanate of Rūm

This chapter discusses border identities in Asia Minor in the thirteenth century.

Type:: Book Chapter
Published:: 2022
Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press

This chapter discusses border identities in Asia Minor in the thirteenth century. It provides a close analysis of the cases of Michael Palaiologos and Constantine Doukas Nestongos, who switched sides between the Empire of Nicaea and the Sultanate of Rūm. Such cases exemplify how Byzantine magnates could adopt situational identities which were determined by factors such as their dynastic connections, faith, and family estates. The situational character of political identifications shows that the latter were not primarily informed by ethnic affiliation. Moreover, ethnocultural categorisations remained malleable, that is particularly fluid and fused, on the border zones of the Nicaean imperial state and the sultanate.

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What is "Two Paradoxes of Border Identity: Michael VIII Palaiologos and Constantine Doukas Nestongos in the Sultanate of Rūm" about?: This chapter discusses border identities in Asia Minor in the thirteenth century.