Social Stratification in Late Byzantium

✍ Scribed by Christos Malatras

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 608
Series: Edinburgh Byzantine Studies
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Introduces the basic patterns, ideas and gestures that governed the system of social relations and the construction of social profiles and roles of Byzantine society

Identifies the main traits of Late Byzantine society and the ideas of the Byzantines about their social system, the social values and the organisation of their society.
Explores the use of modern sociological and anthropological theories in order to better understand Byzantine society.
Provides thorough and up-to-date analysis of the different social groups in the Late Byzantine society (character, composition, relation to the economic, political and ideological resources).
Emphasises the networks of patron-client relations and their effect on the structures of Byzantine society.
Offers a new explanation of the collapse of Byzantine society and the state in the face of external threats.

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Note to the Reader
Introduction: Byzantium after 1261: State, Society and Culture
Part I: The Earthly Order
1 The Social System
2 Social Status
3 Social Stratification
4 Social Associations
5 Social Power
Part II: Case Studies
6 Late Byzantine Provincial Society: The Example of Serres
7 Late Palaiologan Urban Society: Constantinople at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century
Conclusion: The Order and the Structures of the Social System
Appendices
Tables 26–9
Glossary
Byzantine Emperors (1261–1453)
Alphabetical List of the Official Hierarchy of Titles in Pseudo-Kodinos
Alphabetical List of Ecclesiastical Offices
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Terms
Index of Places

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