Εξειδίκευση τύπου :	Κεφάλαιο βιβλίου
Τίτλος:	Social Change in the Countryside of Eleventh-Century Byzantium
Δημιουργός/Συγγραφέας:	[EL] Σμυρλής, Κωστής[EN] Smyrlis, Kostis
Επιμελητής έκδοσης:	Howard-Johnston, James
Εκδότης:	Oxford University Press
Τόπος έκδοσης:	Oxford
Ημερομηνία:	2020
Γλώσσα:	Αγγλικά
ISBN:	9780198841616 9780191877100
DOI:	10.1093/oso/9780198841616.003.0004
Περίληψη:	Offering a review of Byzantine rural society during the transitional eleventh century this chapter underlines the role the state played in the evolution of social and economic relations. It is argued that the appropriation by the state of a large part of the fertile land, dictated by financial considerations, greatly restricted the space for expansion of the provincial elite while benefitting certain individuals serving the regime. This nuances the notion that the eleventh and twelfth centuries saw the consolidation of the power of the landowning aristocracy. By the end of the eleventh century, a large portion of the peasantry had become dependent on private landowners. Nevertheless, despite the social and economic restrictions their subjection implied, dependent peasants retained a relatively elevated legal status, thanks to a fiscal apparatus and a legal framework that limited the freedom of great landlords.
Τίτλος πηγής δημοσίευσης:	Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium
Σελίδες:	62–75
Θεματική Κατηγορία:	[EL] Μεσαιωνική Ελλάδα, Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία 323-1453[EN] Medieval Greece. Byzantine Empire, 323-1453
Λέξεις-Κλειδιά:	Estates Provincial landowners Provincial towns Alexios I Komnenos Komnenian family Confiscation Peasantry Paroikoi Village
Κάτοχος πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων:	© Oxford University Press
Ηλεκτρονική διεύθυνση στον εκδότη (link):	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841616.003.0004
Εμφανίζεται στις συλλογές:	Τομέας Βυζαντινών Ερευνών - Επιστημονικό έργο