
Название: Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium
Автор: James Howard-Johnston
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2020
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 314
Размер: 17.6 Мб
Язык: English
The history of Byzantium pivots around the eleventh century, during which it reached its apogee in terms of power, prestige, and territorial extension, only then to plunge into steep political decline following serious military defeats and extensive territorial losses. The political, economic, and intellectual history of the period is reasonably well understood, but not so what was happening in that crucial intermediary sphere, the social order, which both shaped and was shaped by contemporary ideas and brute economic developments.