Social Stratification in Late Byzantium / Christos Malatras.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Malatras, Chrēstos, author.

Series:

• Edinburgh Byzantine studies.
• Edinburgh Byzantine Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Byzantine Empire--History--1081-1453.
• Social classes--Byzantine Empire.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (609 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

• Intro
• 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 OfficialHierarchy of Titles in Pseudo-Kodinos
• Alphabetical List of Ecclesiastical Offices
• Bibliography
• Primary Sources
• Secondary Works
• Index of Names
• Index of Terms
• Index of Places.

Notes:

• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

• 9781474460910
• 1474460917
• 9781474460903
• 1474460909