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Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Pubblicazione: 09/2020





Note Editore

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.




Sommario

1 - Transformations in Byzantine Society in the Eleventh Century, Particularly in Constantinople
2 - The Social Views of Michael Attaleiates
3 - Social Change in the Countryside of Eleventh-Century Byzantium
4 - Before and After the Eleventh Century AD in the Territory of Sagalassos: Settlement Evolution
5 - What Went Wrong? Decline and Ruralization in Eleventh-Century Anatolia: The Archaeological Record
6 - Greece in the Eleventh Century
7 - New Light on the Society of Byzantine Italy
8 - Social Change in Eleventh-Century Armenia: The Evidence from Taron
9 - Byzantium in the Eleventh Century: General Reflections




Autore

James Howard-Johnston is an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was previously a Junior Research Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford between 1966 and 1971, Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. from 1968-9, and University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Corpus Christi College from 1971 until 2009. He has also served as both an Oxford City Councillor and an Oxfordshire County Councillor and is married to the novelist Angela Huth.










Altre Informazioni

ISBN:

9780198841616

Condizione: Nuovo
Collana: Oxford Studies in Byzantium
Dimensioni: 240 x 22.1 x 164 mm Ø 688 gr
Formato: Copertina rigida
Illustration Notes:15 black-and-white and 9 colour illustrations
Pagine Arabe: 314


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