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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 explor...

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Main Author: Bell, P. N. (Peter Neville), 1945- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Byzantine Empire > History > Justinian I, 527-565.
Social conflict > Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine Empire > Rural conditions.
Byzantine Empire > Church history.
Empire byzantin > Histoire > 527-565 (Justinien Ier)
Rural conditions
Social conflict
Byzantine Empire
527-565
Electronic books.
Church history
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.