Authority In Byzantine Provincial Society 950 1100
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Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society 950 1100
Author | : Leonora Neville |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2004-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521838657 |
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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.
Guide to Byzantine Historical Writing
Author | : Leonora Neville |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2018-05-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107039988 |
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Makes the study of medieval Greek historical writing accessible by providing fundamental orientation and information.
Environment and Society in Byzantium 650 1150
Author | : Alexander Olson |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2020-11-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783030599362 |
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This book illuminates Byzantines' relationship with woodland between the seventh and twelfth centuries. Using the oak and the olive as objects of study, this work explores shifting economic strategies, environmental change, and the transformation of material culture throughout the middle Byzantine period. Drawing from texts, environmental data, and archaeological surveys, this book demonstrates that woodland's makeup was altered after Byzantium's seventh-century metamorphosis, and that people interacted in new ways with this re-worked ecology. Oak obtained prominence after late antiquity, illustrating the shift from that earlier era's intensive agriculture to a more sylvan middle Byzantine economy. Meanwhile, the olive faded into the background, re-emerging in the eleventh and twelfth centuries thanks to the initiative of people adapting yet again to newly changed political and economic circumstances. This book therefore shows that Byzantines' relationship with their ecology was far from static, and that Byzantines' decisions had environmental impacts.
Historical Dictionary of Byzantium
Author | : John Hutchins Rosser |
Publsiher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 643 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780810875678 |
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The Byzantine Empire dates back to Constantine the Great, the first Christian ruler of the Roman Empire, who, in 330 AD, moved the imperial capital from Rome to a port city in modern-day Turkey, which he then renamed Constantinople in his honor. From its founding, the Byzantine Empire was a major anchor of east-west trade, and culture, art, architecture, and the economy all prospered in the newly Christian empire. As Byzantium moved into the middle and late period, Greek became the official language of both church and state and the Empire's cultural and religious influence extended well beyond its boundaries. In the mid-15th century, the Ottoman Turks put an end to 1,100 years of Byzantine history by capturing Constantinople, but the Empire's legacy in art, culture, and religion endured long after its fall. In this revised and updated second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Byzantium, author John H. Rosser introduces both the general reader and the researcher to the history of the Byzantine Empire. This comprehensive dictionary includes detailed, alphabetical entries on key figures, ideas, places, and themes related to Byzantine art, history, and religion, and the second edition contains numerous additional entries on broad topics such as transportation and gender, which were less prominent in the previous edition. An expanded introduction introduces the reader to Byzantium and a guide to further sources and suggested readings can be found in the extensive bibliography that follows the entries. A basic chronology and various maps and illustrations are also included in the dictionary. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Byzantium.
Roman Identity from the Arab Conquests to the Triumph of Orthodoxy
Author | : Douglas Whalin |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2021-01-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783030609061 |
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This book asks how the inhabitants and neighbours of the Eastern Roman Empire understand their identity as Romans in the centuries following the emergence of Islam as a world-religion. Its answers lie in exploring the nature of change and continuity of social structures, self-representation, and boundaries as markers of belonging to the Roman group in the period from circa AD 650 to 850. Early medieval Romanness was integral to the Roman imperial project; its local utility as an identifier was shaped by a given community’s relationship with Constantinople, the capital of the Roman state. This volume argues that there was fundamental continuity of Roman identity from Late Antiquity through these centuries into later periods. Many transformations which are ascribed to the Romans of this era have been subjectively assigned by outsiders, separated by time or space, and are not born out by the sources. This finding dovetails with other recent historical works re-evaluating the early medieval Eastern Roman polity and its ideology.
Heroes and Romans in Twelfth Century Byzantium
Author | : Leonora Neville |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2012-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107009455 |
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This book reveals how cultural memories of classical Roman honor informed Nikephoros Bryennios' history of the eleventh century and his political choices.
Warriors Martyrs and Dervishes
Author | : Buket Kitapçı Bayrı |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2019-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004415843 |
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Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) focuses on the perceptions of geopolitical and cultural change on Byzantine territories between thirteenth and fifteenth centuries through intersecting stories on Turkish Muslim warriors, dervishes, and Byzantine martyrs.
Life and Society in Byzantine Cappadocia
Author | : Eric. Cooper,Michael J. Decker |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2012-07-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137029645 |
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This is the first in-depth historical study of Byzantine Cappadocia. The authors draw on extensive textual and archaeological materials to examine the nature and place of Cappadocia in the Byzantine Empire from the fourth through eleventh centuries.