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Informationen zum Autor John Haldon is Professor of Byzantine History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, and is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of late Roman and Byzantine social, economic, and institutional history. His books include Warfare, State, and Society in the Byzantine World (1999). Byzantium: A History (2000). Byzantium at War (2002), and The Oxford Handbook of Byzantium Studies (editor with E. Jeffreys and R. Cormack, 2008). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Provides interconnected essays of original scholarship relating to the social history of the Byzantine empire Offers groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research in the study of Byzantine society Includes helpful glossaries of sociological/theoretical terms and Byzantine/medieval terms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors vii Foreword ix List of Abbreviations xi Maps xiii 1 Towards a Social History of Byzantium 1 John Haldon 2 Men, Women, Eunuchs: Gender, Sex, and Power 31 Liz James 3 Family Structure and the Transmission of Property 51 Angeliki E. Laiou 4 The Social Function of the Law 76 Bernard Stolte 5 Social Relations and the Land: The Early Period 92 Peter Sarris 6 Land and Power in the Middle and Later Period 112 Peter Frankopan 7 The Producing Population 143 Michel Kaplan 8 Social Élites, Wealth, and Power 168 John Haldon 9 Court Society and Aristocracy 212 Paul Magdalino 10 Church and Society: Iconoclasm and After 233 Michael Angold 11 A Monastic World 257 Alice-Mary Talbot Glossary of Byzantine and Medieval Terms 279 Index 286 ...
