Power and People

Collective Agency in Byzantium
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-88402-544-3
Verlag: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Reihe: Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia

How did people climb the social ladder in the Byzantine empire? Did Byzantium have guilds? What did horse-racing fan clubs in the hippodrome have in common with other social organizations? What causes and what religious and civic motivations united urban dwellers? For too long, Byzantium has been seen as an atomized society dominated by the imperial court in Constantinople. Power and People breaks new ground in highlighting the existence of vertical connections articulated through collective agency. Focusing on “middling” people—urban professionals, prosperous householders and farmers, and monastics—living in Constantinople, Thessaloniki, and elsewhere, these eight contributions present new materials and fresh approaches to the strategies of collective self-empowerment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rapp, Claudia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Byzantinische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Rapp, Claudia
Claudia Rapp is Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna and Director of the Institute for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.