Land and Privilege in Byzantium: The Institution of Pronoia

ISBN-13: 9781108439039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 747 str.

Mark C. Bartusis

Opis

The first comprehensive analysis for over fifty years of pronoia and its importance in the history of later Byzantium.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The non-technical senses of the word pronoia; 2. Pronoia during the twelfth century; 3. Choniates' 'gifts of Paroikoi'; 4. Origins; 5. Pronoia during the Period of Exile (1204–1261); 6. Pronoia during the era of Michael VIII Palaiologos; 7. Terminology, late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; 8. The nature of pronoia, late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries: a handbook in three parts; 9. Pronoia during the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; 10. Pronoia and timar; Conclusion; Appendices.