The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, C. 500 to 1050: The Early Middle Ages

ISBN-13: 9780748638093 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 376 str.

Florin Curta

Opis

This volume traces the social, economic and political history of the Greeks between 500 and 1050. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach and uses archaeological evidence, as well as coins and seals, fiscal documents, medieval chronicles, and hagiographic literature to examine the development of Greek culture in the early medieval period. Several themes provide the foundation for this volume and run through the chapters; these include the Balkan context, the Social Role of the Army and the Onset of Economic Growth. Special attention is paid to the size of the economy in early medieval Greece. Both the social and the economic are privileged and analyzed together as integrally connected spheres of life, thus filling a major gap in existing literature on this period.

Spis treści

Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Introduction; 1. The last century of Roman power (ca. 500 to ca. 620): army, Church, and countryside; 2. Collapse or adaptation? The problem of the urban decline in late antique Greece; 3. Invasion or inflation? Hoards and barbarians in sixth- and seventh-century Greece; 4. Dark-Age Greece (ca. 620 to ca. 800); 5. Revival and expansion (ca. 800 to ca. 900); 6. The beginning of prosperity (ca. 900 to ca. 1050); 7. Early medieval Greece and the Middle Byzantine economy; 8. Social structures and Byzantine administration in early medieval Greece; 9. Christianity in early medieval Greece; 10. Conclusion: the people of early medieval Greece; Bibliography; Index.