A Social History of Byzantium 1st Edition by John Haldon ISBN 1444305913 9781444305913
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ISBN 10: 1444305913
ISBN 13: 9781444305913
Author: John Haldon
A SOCIAL HISTORY OF BYZANTIUM
“Until now, the social history of Byzantium has remained a neglected field. Professor John Haldon has put together a team of leading international Byzantinists, each of whom addresses his or her own specialized area. The book will be a critical tool for anyone who wants to understand Byzantium.”
Averil Cameron, University of Oxford
“The great merit of this volume is its openness to larger methodological debates about socio-economic history and state structures. For the first time in a comprehensive study, Byzantine society is treated as an integral part of the world history of the Middle Ages.”
Claudia Rapp, University of California, Los Angeles
Western civilization owes an incalculable cultural and historical debt to the Byzantine Empire. Before falling to the Ottoman Turks in the mid-fifteenth century, the empire flourished for more than a thousand years, bridging the ancient and modern worlds. Byzantium profoundly influenced the pattern of cultural and political development in the lands it occupied and had an enduring influence on neighboring societies.
A Social History of Byzantium delves into a crucial and often neglected strand of Byzantine studies – the social history of the eastern Roman Empire. Drawing on a wealth of new research and with original essays by leading scholars, this groundbreaking work addresses a wide range of interconnected topics and offers illuminating insights into our knowledge of Byzantine society. Exploring such issues as family life, social structure, religion, class, gender, and imperial power, this book reveals the complex social structure woven throughout the Byzantine world.
Table of contents:
Front Matter
Chapter 1: Towards a Social History of Byzantium
Chapter 2: Men, Women, Eunuchs: Gender, Sex, and Power
Chapter 3: Family Structure and the Transmission of Property
Chapter 4: The Social Function of the Law
Chapter 5: Social Relations and the Land: The Early Period
Chapter 6: Land and Power in the Middle and Later Period
Chapter 7: The Producing Population
Chapter 8: Social Élites, Wealth, and Power
Chapter 9: Court Society and Aristocracy
Chapter 10: Church and Society: Iconoclasm and After
Chapter 11: A Monastic World
Glossary of Byzantine and Medieval Terms
Index
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