The social history of Byzantium /
With original essays by leading scholars, this book explores the social history of the medieval eastern Roman Empire and offers illuminating new insights into our knowledge of Byzantine society. Provides interconnected essays of original scholarship relating to the social history of the Byzantine em...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Towards a social history of Byzantium / John Haldon
- Men, women, Eunchs: gender, sex, and power / Liz James
- Family structure and the transmission of property / Angeliki E. Laiou
- The social function of the law / Bernard Stolte
- Social relations and the land: the Early Period / Peter Sarris
- Land and power in the Middle and Later Period / Peter Frankopan
- The producing population / Michel Kaplan
- Social elites, wealth, and power / John Haldon
- Court society and aristocracy / Paul Magdalino
- Church and society: iconoclasm and after / Michael Angold
- A monastic world / Alice-Mary Talbot.
