Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c. 500 to 1050

The Early Middle Ages

AvFlorin Curta

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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This volume traces the social, economic and political history of the Greeks between 500 and 1050. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach and uses archaeological evidence, as well as coins and seals, fiscal documents, medieval chronicles, and hagiographic literature to examine the development of Greek culture in the early medieval period. Several themes provide the foundation for this volume and run through the chapters; these include the Balkan context, the Social Role of the Army and the Onset of Economic Growth. Special attention is paid to the size of the economy in early medieval Greece. Both the social and the economic are privileged and analyzed together as integrally connected spheres of life, thus filling a major gap in existing literature on this period.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-03-24
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:577 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh History of the Greeks
Antal sidor:376
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748694327
Utmärkelser:Winner of Romanian Academy Nicolae Iorga Prize 2013

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Florin Curta is Waldo W. Neikirk Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida. He is the author of the Making of the Slavs. History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, c. 500-700 (Cambridge University Press, 2001), which won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association in 2003. Curta also wrote Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, ca. 500-1250 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and edited three collections of studies dedicated to such diverse themes as Eastern and East Central Europe in the early Middle Ages; barriers, borders, and ethnogenesis in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages; nomads in Eastern Europe between the sixth and the twelfth century. He is the editor-in-chief of the Brill series "Eastern and East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450" and member of Medieval Academy of America Publication Advisory Board and the Advisory Board of the Cursor Mundi series of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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This very learned and detailed investigation represents an advance in the field… While the paucity of written (literary and epigraphic) sources is one challenge, Curta introduces much valuable numismatic and sigillographic evidence ... There is no comparable book.

Innehållsförteckning

Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Introduction; 1. The last century of Roman power (ca. 500 to ca. 620): army, Church, and countryside; 2. Collapse or adaptation? The problem of the urban decline in late antique Greece; 3. Invasion or inflation? Hoards and barbarians in sixth- and seventh-century Greece; 4. Dark-Age Greece (ca. 620 to ca. 800); 5. Revival and expansion (ca. 800 to ca. 900); 6. The beginning of prosperity (ca. 900 to ca. 1050); 7. Early medieval Greece and the Middle Byzantine economy; 8. Social structures and Byzantine administration in early medieval Greece; 9. Christianity in early medieval Greece; 10. Conclusion: the people of early medieval Greece; Bibliography; Index.