Rural Communities in Late Byzantium - Resilience and Vulnerability in the Northern Aegean

Argues that Late Byzantine rural communities were resilient and able to transform their socioeconomic strategies in the face of crisis.

List of contents

1. In Search of Late Byzantine Rural Island Communities; 2. Who is Who in the Rural Landscape: The Makeup of Late Byzantine Rural Communities; 3. Pathways of Resilience; 4. Defending the Realm; 5. Community Building in the Face of Crisis: A Landscape Approach; 6. The Return of the People; Appendix I; Appendix II; Bibliography.

About the author

Fotini Kondyli is Associate Professor of Byzantine Archaeology and Art at the University of Virginia. Her research deals with Byzantine social and spatial practices and the archaeology of non-elites. She is the recipient of fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology at Brown University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Summary

Uses an interdisciplinary approach combining new archaeological evidence with archival material to reconstruct the lives of rural communities in the Late Byzantine period in the face of economic, political, and demographic challenges. The emphasis on communities' social resilience contributes to a diachronic approach to crisis studies.

Product details

• Authors: Fotini Kondyli, Fotini (University of Virginia) Kondyli, Kondyli Fotini
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781108845496
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84549-6
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Rural communities, CE period up to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Byzantine Empire