Format:
1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
0755601947
,
9780755601967
,
9780755601943
Series Statement:
New Directions in Byzantine Studies
Content:
"The eleventh century marked a turning point in the history of the Byzantine Empire. At its start Byzantium was the paramount power in the Mediterranean world, by turns feared, respected and admired. By the century's close the empire had lost half of its territory and had managed only a partial recovery under the leadership of the Komnenos family. How did a powerful and famously wealthy empire collapse so quickly? The contemporary accounts of this turbulent 'long' century (taken here as c. 950-1100) attribute the empire's decline to the emperors' reckless and self-serving favouring of civilian bureaucrats and, while these sources are today widely acknowledged as biased and unreliable, modern assessments of the century have hitherto failed to suggest any tangible alternatives. To circumvent this dearth of archival material, Jonathan Shea has meticulously analysed 2,200 unpublished seals from the period (more than a third of the known total extant today) to uncover exactly whom the emperors were favouring and promoting, as well as developing a nuanced and revealing picture of the makeup of the much-chastised civilian bureaucracy. The sigillographic evidence is throughout measured against the written material to give a fresh account of this key transitional century and a rare insight into Byzantine politics."--
Content:
Part 1 Byzantium at the Turning Point -- Part 1.2 Byzantium in the Eleventh Century -- Part 1.2 Seals, Coins, and Lists -- Part 2 The Byzantine Bureaucrat -- Part 3 The Rise of the Civilians -- Part 3.1 Changing with the Times: The Logothesia and the Treasuries -- Part 3.2 Slipping Backwards: The Imperial Chancery -- Part 3.3 Governing the Capital -- Part 3.4 A New Bureucratic Elite: The Judiciary -- Part 4 The Collapse of Civilian Government -- Reform and Consolidation: The Logothesia and the Treasuries p. 116 -- The Chancery: A Part of the Imperial Household? -- The Administration of Constantinople: A Steady Decline -- Falling From Grace: The Judiciary -- The End of Civilian Government -- Part 5 Changing Priorities and an Evolving Government -- Appendix Chartoularioi, Notarioi, and Logariastai -- Bibliography
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Shea, Jonathan Politics and government in byzantium London : I B TAURIS, 2020 ISBN 9780755601936
Language:
English
Keywords:
Byzantinisches Reich
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Politik
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Bürokratie
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Geschichte
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755601967
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