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Social conflict in the age of Justinian : its nature, management, and mediation /

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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 r...

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Main Author: Bell, P. N. (Peter Neville), 1945- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Social conflict > Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine Empire > History > Justinian I, 527-565.
Byzantine Empire > Rural conditions.
Byzantine Empire > Church history.
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.