Gender, Society and Economic Life in Byzantium

ISBN-13: 9780860783220 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 352 str.

Angeliki E. Laiou

Opis

These studies reflect the author's interest in history as it was lived: not only social and economic structures, but the men and women who made them function. The role of women in Byzantine economy and society is found to be much more important than had been believed.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; The role of women in Byzantine society (with addendum); Observations on the life and ideology of Byzantine women; The festival of ’Agathe’: comments on the life of Constantinopolitan women; Concensus facit nuptias”et non: Pope Nicholas I’s Responsa to the Bulgarians as a source for Byzantine marriage customs; Contribution à l’étude de l’institution familiale en Epire au XIIIe siècle; The Byzantine aristocracy in the Palaeologan period: a story of arrested development; The Byzantine economy in the Mediterranean trade system 13th-15th centuries; The Greek merchant of the Palaeologan period: a collective portrait; In the medieval Balkans: economic pressures and conflicts in the 14th century; Quelques observations sur l’économie et la société de Crète vénitienne (ca. 1270-ca. 1305); Händler und Kaufleute auf dem Jahrmarkt; Index.