Law and Society in Byzantium, 9th-12th Centuries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law and Society in Byzantium, 9th-12th Centuries write by Angeliki E. Laiou. This book was released on 1994. Law and Society in Byzantium, 9th-12th Centuries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays in this volume investigate themes related to the place of law in Byzantine ideology and society. Was this a society which was meant to be governed by law? For answers, these essays look to the intent of the legislators; the attitudes toward the law; the relationship between law, religion, literature, and art.
Law and society in Byzantium, 9th-12th centuries
Law and society in Byzantium, 9th-12th centuries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law and society in Byzantium, 9th-12th centuries write by Angeliki E. ; Simon Laiou (Dieter, eds). This book was released on 1994. Law and society in Byzantium, 9th-12th centuries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium
Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium write by James Howard-Johnston. This book was released on 2020-09-10. Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history of Byzantium pivots around the eleventh century, during which it reached its apogee in terms of power, prestige, and territorial extension, only then to plunge into steep political decline following serious military defeats and extensive territorial losses. The political, economic, and intellectual history of the period is reasonably well understood, but not so what was happening in that crucial intermediary sphere, the social order, which both shaped and was shaped by contemporary ideas and brute economic developments. This volume aims to deepen understanding of Byzantine society by examining material evidence for settlements and production in different regions and by sifting through the far from plentiful literary and documentary sources in order to track what was happening in town and country. There is evidence of significant change: the pattern of landownership continued to shift in favour of those with power and wealth, but there was sustained and effective resistance from peasant villages. Provincial towns prospered in what was an era of sustained economic growth, and, through newly emboldened local elites, took a more active part in public affairs. In the capital the middling classes, comprising much of officialdom and leading traders, gained in importance, while the twin military and civilian elites were merging to form a single governing class. However, despite this social upheaval, careful analysis of these various factors by a range of leading Byzantine historians and archaeologists leads to the overarching conclusion that it was not so much internal structural changes which contributed to the vertiginous decline suffered by Byzantium in the late eleventh century, as the unprecedented combination of dangerous adversaries on different fronts, in the east, north, and west.
Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100
Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100 write by Leonora Neville. This book was released on 2004-08-19. Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The imperial government over the central provinces of the Byzantine Empire was sovereign and, at the same time, apathetic, dealing effectively with a narrow set of objectives, chiefly collecting revenue and maintaining imperial sovereignty. Outside of these spheres, action needed to be solicited from imperial officials, leaving vast opportunities for local people to act independently without legal stricture or fear of imperial involvement. In the absence of imperial intervention provincial households competed with each other for control over community decisions. The emperors exercised just enough strength at the right times to prevent the leaders of important households in the core provinces from becoming rulers themselves. Membership in a successful household, wealth, capacity for effective violence and access to the imperial court were key factors that allowed one to act with authority. This book examines in detail the mechanisms provincial households used to acquire and dispute authority.
Serving Byzantium's Emperors
Serving Byzantium's Emperors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Serving Byzantium's Emperors write by Dimitris Krallis. This book was released on 2019-01-31. Serving Byzantium's Emperors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a microhistory of eleventh-century Byzantium, built around the biography of the state official Michael Attaleiates. Dimitris Krallis presents Byzantium as a cohesive, ever-evolving, dynamic, Roman political community, built on traditions of Roman governance and Hellenic culture. In the eleventh century, Byzantium faced a crisis as it navigated a shifting international environment of feudal polities, merchant republics, steppe migrations, and a rapidly transforming Islamic world. Attaleiates’ life, from provincial birth to Constantinopolitan death, and career, as a member of an ancient empire’s officialdom, raise questions of identity, family, education, governance, elite culture, Romanness, Hellenism, science and skepticism, as well as political ideology during this period. The life and work of Attaleiates is used as a prism through which to examine important questions about a long-lived medieval polity that is usually studied as exotic and distinct from both the European and the Near Eastern historical experience.
