Rural communities in Late Byzantium : resilience and vulnerability in the northern Aegean /
Late Byzantium faced economic, political and demographic crises. This book argues for the ability of rural communities to transform their socioeconomic strategies and maintain resilience in the face of these, especially in the context of islands. It seeks to reinstate ordinary people in the historic...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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| Summary: | Late Byzantium faced economic, political and demographic crises. This book argues for the ability of rural communities to transform their socioeconomic strategies and maintain resilience in the face of these, especially in the context of islands. It seeks to reinstate ordinary people in the historical narrative and reintroduce them as active participants in the events of the period, pointing to their ability not only to react to change, but also to initiate it. Combining new archaeological evidence with archival material pertaining to the islands of Lemnos and Thasos in the northern Aegean, it provides concrete examples of Byzantine socioeconomic strategies that successfully mitigated the various crises and thus contributes to a diachronic perspective on crisis management. The result is to rethink the nature of the Late Byzantine period, and to question the ways in which we have come to divide historical periods into 'good' or 'bad.' |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 290 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-276) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108845496 1108845495 9781108969819 110896981X |