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  title info:
    title: Social conflict in the age of Justinian
    sub title: its nature, management, and mediation
  name:
    name part: Bell, P. N. (Peter Neville)
    name part: 1945-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Our understanding of Late Antiquity can be transformed by the non-dogmatic application of social theory to more traditional evidence when studying major social conflicts in the Eastern Roman Empire, not least under the Emperor Justinian (527-565). Social Conflict in the Age of Justinian explores a range of often violent conflicts across the whole empire, on the land, in religion and in sport, during this pivotal period in European history. Drawing on both sociology and social psychology, and on his experience as a senior British Civil Servant dealing with violent political conflicts in Northern Ireland and elsewhere, Bell shows that such conflicts were a basic feature of the overwhelmingly agricultural political economy of the empire. These conflicts were reflected at the ideological level and lead to intense persecution of intellectuals and Pagans as an ever more robust Christian ideological hegemony was established. In challenging the loyalties of all social classes, they also increased the vulnerability of an emperor and his allies. The need to legitimize the emperor, through an increasingly sacralized monarchy, and to build a loyal constituency, consequently remained a top priority for Justinian, even if his repeated efforts to unite the churches failed.
  table of contents: Part I -- An Introduction: Approaches, Methods, Sources -- 1. Understanding Social Conflict -- 2. The Analytical Framework -- Part II -- Three Major Conflicts: in Agriculture, the Factions, and the Churches -- 3. Social Conflict in Countryside and Town -- 4. Two Empire-wide Conflicts: The Factions and the Christians -- Part III -- Ideological Conflicts - Their Mediation and Management -- 5. Ideological Conflict in the Reign of Justinian I -- 6. Constructing Legitimacy -- 7. Hagia Sophia: Ideology in Stone - A Case Study -- 8. Conclusions.
  note: Peter N. Bell.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-382) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Social conflict
    geographic: Byzantine Empire
  subject:
    geographic: Byzantine Empire
    topic: History
    temporal: Justinian I, 527-565
  subject:
    geographic: Byzantine Empire
    topic: Rural conditions
  subject:
    geographic: Byzantine Empire
    topic: Church history
  classification: 949.5013
  identifier: 9780199567331 (hbk.)
  identifier: 0199567336 (hbk.)
  record info:
    record content source: UKM
    record creation date: 121112
    record change date: 20151205115044.0
    record identifier: in00003267116