Approaching Social Hierarchies in Byzantium Dialogues Between Rich and Poor
Kelley, Anna C.
Approaching Social Hierarchies in Byzantium Dialogues Between Rich and Poor - Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2025 - 1 online resource - Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies .
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Utilising new methodological approaches to understanding not only the poor as a social and economic group but also of the internal means of stratification which informed social organisation within local communities, this book looks at the place of the poor within the multi-layered hierarchies of Byzantine society using evidence from archaeology, art, architecture, as well as narrative, theological, and legal texts. Rather than treating the different levels of society independently, it looks at the social interactions which replicated and reinforced hierarchies but were also subject to negotiation within local communities. Fifteen leading Byzantine scholars discuss and analyse the topic of social hierarchies in the Byzantine Empire, covering topics such as working lives, the material world, the stratification of space, and philanthropy and social obligation. The book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in identity formation and expression in the Byzantine provinces, as well as those researching the social history of the poor in Byzantium, and the mechanisms of hierarchies, social marginalisation, and oppression.
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eng
9781003424512 9781032543635 9781032543642
10.4324/9781003424512 doi
European history
History and Archaeology
History: specific events and topics
History
Middle Eastern history
Social and cultural history
byzatium culture history social structures society
Approaching Social Hierarchies in Byzantium Dialogues Between Rich and Poor - Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2025 - 1 online resource - Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies .
Free-to-read
Utilising new methodological approaches to understanding not only the poor as a social and economic group but also of the internal means of stratification which informed social organisation within local communities, this book looks at the place of the poor within the multi-layered hierarchies of Byzantine society using evidence from archaeology, art, architecture, as well as narrative, theological, and legal texts. Rather than treating the different levels of society independently, it looks at the social interactions which replicated and reinforced hierarchies but were also subject to negotiation within local communities. Fifteen leading Byzantine scholars discuss and analyse the topic of social hierarchies in the Byzantine Empire, covering topics such as working lives, the material world, the stratification of space, and philanthropy and social obligation. The book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in identity formation and expression in the Byzantine provinces, as well as those researching the social history of the poor in Byzantium, and the mechanisms of hierarchies, social marginalisation, and oppression.
Open licence
eng
9781003424512 9781032543635 9781032543642
10.4324/9781003424512 doi
European history
History and Archaeology
History: specific events and topics
History
Middle Eastern history
Social and cultural history
byzatium culture history social structures society
