Peasant society in the late byzantine empire: a social and demographic study
Auteur :
Laiou-Thomadakis, Angeliki E.
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691655451
Date de publication :
12 mars 2019
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This book applies scientific demographic methods to the study of Byzantine peasantry in a period of feudalization. The author shows that the number of peasants declined in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for reasons that had less to do with catastrophes than with internal social developments. Her book makes the first thorough analysis of thi