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The social history of Byzantium / edited by John Haldon.

Contributor(s): Haldon, John FMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (xxvii, 300 pages) : mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 1444305913; 9781444305913Subject(s): Byzantine Empire -- Social conditions | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural | POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture | Social conditions | Byzantine Empire | Byzantijnse rijk | Electronic booksGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Social history of Byzantium.DDC classification: 306.09495 LOC classification: HN11 | .S63 2009ebOther classification: 15.59 Online resources: Wiley Online Library

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.

Action note: digitized 2010 committed to preserveSummary: 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 empireOffers groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research in the study of Byzantine societyIncludes helpful glossaries of sociological/theoretical terms and Byzantine/medieval terms.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 empireOffers groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research in the study of Byzantine societyIncludes helpful glossaries of sociological/theoretical terms and Byzantine/medieval terms.

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