Format:
1 online resource (750 pages)
ISBN:
9781139844741
Content:
The first comprehensive analysis for over fifty years of pronoia and its importance in the history of later Byzantium.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Figures -- Tables -- List of major sources -- Acknowledgments -- A note on transliteration, pronunciation, and dates -- Dates -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- List of rulers -- Byzantine emperors -- Rulers in Epiros -- Rulers in Thessaloniki -- Despots in the Morea -- Emperors of Trebizond -- Rulers of Serbia -- Tsars of Bulgaria -- Ottoman Turkish Rulers -- Introduction -- The historiography of pronoia -- The approach -- 1 The non-technical senses of the word pronoia -- Simple "care" or "solicitude" -- Divine and imperial "solicitude" -- "Maintenance" -- [1.1] Anna Komnene on her father's orphanage (ca. 1150) -- "Administration" or "management" -- The verb -- Pronoetes -- 2 Pronoia during the twelfth century -- Ta pronoiatika -- [2.1] The Zavorda Treatise -- The pronoia of the deceased Synadenos -- [2.2] Typikon for the Pantokrator monastery mentioning the pronoia of Synadenos (1136) -- Pankratios Anemas -- [2.3] Act of the doux of Thessaloniki John Kontostephanos for the monastery of Lavra (1162) -- The Cumans of Moglena -- [2.4] Praktikon of Andronikos Vatatzes for the monastery of Lavra regarding the Cumans of Moglena (1181) -- [2.5] Prostaxis of Andronikos I Komnenos for the monastery of Lavra regarding the Cumans of Moglena (1184) -- The Skordiles family of Crete -- [2.6] Act of the doux of Crete Constantine Doukas for the Skordiles family (1183 or 1192) -- Observations -- 3 Choniates' "gifts of paroikoi" -- [3.1] Choniates on "gifts of paroikoi" (early thirteenth century) -- "Gifts of paroikoi" in other sources and its meaning -- Byzantine taxation in the eleventh and twelfth centuries -- Exempting and reducing taxes -- The simple logisimon and the logisimon autourgion solemnion -- The exkousseia -- Logisima and exkousseiai for the benefit of a third party -- The exkousseia of paroikoi -- The number of paroikoi.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107009622
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107009622
Language:
English
Keywords:
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