Peasant Society in the Late Byzantine Empire : : A Social and Demographic Study / / Angeliki E. Laiou-Thomadakis.

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....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]
©1977
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5482
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Graphs, Maps, and Tables
  • List of Greek Terms
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. The Problem and the Method
  • II. The Village
  • III. Family and Kinship
  • IV. Names
  • V. The Dependent Peasant and His Holding
  • VI. Size and Movements of Population
  • VII. Natural Movements of Population
  • Appendix I. Lay Proprietors in the Themes of Thessaloniki and Strymon in the Second Half of the Thirteenth and the First Half of the Fourteenth Century
  • Appendix II. Measurement of the Migration Factor
  • Bibliography
  • Index