The Social History of Byzantium (Repost)

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 empireOffers groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research in the study of Byzantine societyIncludes helpful glossaries of sociological/theoretical terms and Byzantine/medieval terms Content: Chapter 1 Towards a Social History of Byzantium (pages 1–30): John HaldonChapter 2 Men, Women, Eunuchs: Gender, Sex, and Power (pages 31–50): Liz JamesChapter 3 Family Structure and the Transmission of Property (pages 51–75): Angeliki E. LaiouChapter 4 The Social Function of the Law (pages 76–91): Bernard StolteChapter 5 Social Relations and the Land: The Early Period (pages 92–111): Peter SarrisChapter 6 Land and Power in the Middle and Later Period (pages 112–142): Peter FrankopanChapter 7 The Producing Population (pages 143–167): Michel KaplanChapter 8 Social Elites, Wealth, and Power (pages 168–211): John HaldonChapter 9 Court Society and Aristocracy (pages 212–232): Paul MagdalinoChapter 10 Church and Society: Iconoclasm and After (pages 233–256): Michael AngoldChapter 11 A Monastic World (pages 257–278): Alice?Mary Talbot