Mark C. Bartusis

Land and Privilege in Byzantium

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A pronoia was a type of conditional grant from the emperor, often to soldiers, of various properties and privileges. Filling the need for a comprehensive study of the institution, this book examines the origin, evolution and characteristics of pronoia, focusing particularly on the later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

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The first comprehensive analysis for over fifty years of pronoia and its importance in the history of later Byzantium.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 748
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 1449g
• ISBN-13: 9781107009622
• ISBN-10: 1107009626
• Artikelnr.: 33766633

Autorenporträt

Mark C. Bartusis is Professor of History at Northern State University. He is an expert in later Byzantine political, social and military history and author of The Late Byzantine Army: Arms and Society, 1204-1453 (1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The non-technical senses of the word pronoia
2. Pronoia during the twelfth century
3. Choniates' 'gifts of Paroikoi'
4. Origins
5. Pronoia during the Period of Exile (1204-1261)
6. Pronoia during the era of Michael VIII Palaiologos
7. Terminology, late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
8. The nature of pronoia, late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries: a handbook in three parts
9. Pronoia during the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
10. Pronoia and timar
Conclusion
Appendices.