The Social History of Byzantium

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

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