Haldon A Social History of Byzantium

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-119-34460-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten, E-Book

With original essays by leading scholars, this book explores thesocial history of the medieval eastern Roman Empire and offersilluminating new insights into our knowledge of Byzantinesociety.
* Provides interconnected essays of original scholarship relatingto the social history of the Byzantine empire
* Offers groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research in thestudy of Byzantine society
* Includes helpful glossaries of sociological/theoretical termsand Byzantine/medieval terms

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haldon, John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors vii
Foreword ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Maps xiii
1 Towards a Social History of Byzantium 1
John Haldon
2 Men, Women, Eunuchs: Gender, Sex, and Power 31
Liz James
3 Family Structure and the Transmission of Property 51
Angeliki E. Laiou
4 The Social Function of the Law 76
Bernard Stolte
5 Social Relations and the Land: The Early Period 92
Peter Sarris
6 Land and Power in the Middle and Later Period 112
Peter Frankopan
7 The Producing Population 143
Michel Kaplan
8 Social Élites, Wealth, and Power 168
John Haldon
9 Court Society and Aristocracy 212
Paul Magdalino
10 Church and Society: Iconoclasm and After 233
Michael Angold
11 A Monastic World 257
Alice-Mary Talbot
Glossary of Byzantine and Medieval Terms 279
Index 286

Über Autor(innen)

John Haldon is Professor of Byzantine History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, and is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of late Roman and Byzantine social, economic, and institutional history. His books include Warfare, State, and Society in the Byzantine World (1999), Byzantium: A History (2000), Byzantium at War (2002) and The Oxford Handbook of Byzantium Studies (editor with E. Jeffreys and R. Cormack, 2008).