Leonora Neville

Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Short description/annotation
This work examines in detail the power struggles between medieval Byzantine provincial households.

Main description
The imperial government over the central provinces of the Byzantine Empire was sovereign and, at the same time, apathetic, dealing effectively with a narrow set of objectives, chiefly collecting revenue and maintaining imperial sovereignty. Outside of these spheres, action needed to be solicited from imperial officials, leaving vast opportunities for local people to act independently without legal stricture or fear of imperial involvement. In the absence of imperial intervention provincial households competed with each other for control over community decisions. The emperors exercised just enough strength at the right times to prevent the leaders of important households in the core provinces from becoming rulers themselves. Membership in a successful household, wealth, capacity for effective violence and access to the imperial court were key factors that allowed one to act with authority. This book examines in detail the mechanisms provincial households used to acquire and dispute authority.

Table of contents:
Introduction; 1. Imperial administration and Byzantine political culture; 2. Activities of the imperial administration; 3. Provincial households; 4. Provincial households and the imperial administration; 5. Regulation of provincial society; 6. Contention and authority; Conclusions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9780521838658
• ISBN-10: 0521838657
• Artikelnr.: 21072546

Autorenporträt

Professor Leonora Neville is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America, Washington DC. She has written various articles on Byzantine bureaucracy. She has held the Bliss Prize Fellowship.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Imperial administration and Byzantine political culture
2. Activities of the imperial administration
3. Provincial households
4. Provincial households and the imperial administration
5. Regulation of provincial society
6. Contention and authority
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.