This book presents the first analytical account in English of major developments within Byzantine culture, society and the state in the crucial formative period from c.610-717. The seventh century saw the final collapse of ancient urban civilization and municipal culture, the rise of Islam, the evolution of patterns of thought and social structure that made imperial iconoclasm possible, and the development of state apparatuses--military, civil and fiscal--typical of the middle Byzantine state. Also, during this period, orthodox Christianity finally became the unquestioned dominant culture and...
This book presents the first analytical account in English of major developments within Byzantine culture, society and the state in the crucial format...
With original essays by leading scholars, this book explores the social history of the medieval eastern Roman Empire and offers illuminating new insights into our knowledge of Byzantine society.
Provides interconnected essays of original scholarship relating to the social history of the Byzantine empire
Offers groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research in the study of Byzantine society
Includes helpful glossaries of sociological/theoretical terms and Byzantine/medieval terms
With original essays by leading scholars, this book explores the social history of the medieval eastern Roman Empire and offers illuminating new insig...
With original essays by leading scholars, this book explores the social history of the medieval eastern Roman Empire and offers illuminating new insights into our knowledge of Byzantine society.
Provides interconnected essays of original scholarship relating to the social history of the Byzantine empire
Offers groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research in the study of Byzantine society
Includes helpful glossaries of sociological/theoretical terms and Byzantine/medieval terms
With original essays by leading scholars, this book explores the social history of the medieval eastern Roman Empire and offers illuminating new insig...
