Rural lives and landscapes in late Byzantium: art, archaeology, and ethnography

"This is the first book to examine the late Byzantine peasantry through written, archaeological, ethnographic, and painted sources. Investigations of the infrastructure and setting of the medieval village guide the reader into the consideration of specific populations. The village becomes a mic...

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Beteilige Person: Gerstel, Sharon E. J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2015
Ausgabe:first published
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Zusammenfassung:"This is the first book to examine the late Byzantine peasantry through written, archaeological, ethnographic, and painted sources. Investigations of the infrastructure and setting of the medieval village guide the reader into the consideration of specific populations. The village becomes a micro-society, with its own social and economic hierarchies. In addition to studying agricultural workers, mothers, and priests, lesser-known individuals, such as the miller and witch, are revealed through written and painted sources. Placed at the center of a new scholarly landscape, the study of the medieval villager engages a broad spectrum of theorists, including economic historians creating predictive models for agrarian economies, ethnoarchaeologists addressing historical continuities and disjunctions, and scholars examining power and female agency"--Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
The landscape of the village -- Communication and the village church -- The village woman -- Village men, village labor -- In the service of the church -- The body and the soul
Umfang:xvi, 207 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 29 cm
ISBN:9780521851596
0521851599