Social Stratification in Late Byzantium
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-6089-7 (ISBN)
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the social structure of Late Byzantine society (mid 13th - mid 15th c.), including the norms and ideas that governed social relations, and the Byzantine perceptions of their society. It includes an analysis of all social groups, the social networks and the patron-client relations proliferating in this period, and the distribution of social and political power between the different social groups and the state. The deficiencies inherent in Byzantine society are recognised as one of the main factors behind the fragmentation and the collapse of the Byzantine empire.
Christos Malatras has graduated from the University of Crete in Greece (BA and MPhil) and the University of Birmingham in 2013 (Phd). He has since then received fellowships in different institutions in Turkey, Greece, USA and Germany. He has taught Byzantine History in the Democritus University of Thracethe, the University of Thessaly and the University of Ioannina. He has published on social and political history in Late Byzantium, on middle Byzantine provincial administration and sigillography, and on Byzantine identity.
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Note to the Reader
Introduction: Byzantium after 1261: State, Society and Culture
The Subject of the Study and the Sources
Recent Scholarship on (Late) Byzantine Society
Byzantine Society before the Palaiologan Period:
Structure and Characteristics
Outline
Part I: The Earthly Order
1 The Social System
The Order (Taxis) of the Empire
The Dialectics of Deference and the Social Contract
Social Tension and the Challenges to the Established Order
2 Social Status
Social Values and Prestige
Status Incongruence and Social Ascent
3 Social Stratification
Estates and Orders in Byzantium
The Rich and the Poor, the Archontes and the Dēmos
The Anatomy of the Archontes
The Middle Classes and Their Urban Economic Activities
The Peasant World
Concluding Remarks
4 Social Associations
Communities and Vertical Social Groups
A Society of Circles and Social Networks
The Aristocratic Oikos and Its Following
A Fragmented Society
5 Social Power
The Basis of Economic Power
Political Power
State, Church and Society . . . and the Breakdown
Part II: Case Studies
6 Late Byzantine Provincial Society: The Example of Serres
The Higher Elite in Serres and the Non-local Forces of
Economic and Social Influence
The Local Military Elite of Serres
The Civil (Ecclesiastical) Elite of Serres
The Monasteries and Local Society
Urban Economic Activities and the Middle Class
Social Relations in the Countryside of the Lower Strymon
Late Byzantine Provincial Society
7 Late Palaiologan Urban Society: Constantinople at the
Turn of the Fifteenth Century
Byzantine Society on the Eve of Demise: Developments
in the Late Fourteenth Century
Economic and Social Life in Constantinople during the
Siege of Bāyezīd I (1394–1402)
The Fortunes of the Higher and of the ‘Military’ Elite
The Civil Elite
The Middle Class of Constantinople
The Aftermath
Conclusion: The Order and the Structures of the Social System
Appendices
Tables 26–9
Glossary
General Terms
Late Byzantine Offices, Dignities and Epithets
Byzantine Emperors (1261–1453)
Alphabetical List of the Official Hierarchy of Titles in Pseudo-Kodinos
Alphabetical List of Ecclesiastical Offices
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Works
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Byzantine Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 12 black and white illustrations, 29 black and white tables, 2 black and white line art, 3 black and white maps |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-6089-5 / 1474460895 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-6089-7 / 9781474460897 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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