Elite Byzantine Kinship, ca. 950-1204 : : Blood, Reputation, and the Genos / / Nathan Leidholm.
By the end of the twelfth century, the Byzantine ‹i›genos ‹/I› was a politically effective social group based upon ties of consanguineous kinship, but, importantly, it was also a cultural construct, an idea that held very real power, yet defies easy categorization. This study explores the role and f...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Beyond Medieval Europe
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Defining “the Family” in Byzantine Sources and the Modern Historiography
- Chapter 2. The Language of Kinship
- Chapter 3. Marriage Impediments and the Concept of Family
- Chapter 4. Interrogating Consanguinity in a Byzantine Context
- Chapter 5. Family Names and the Politics of Reputation
- Chapter 6. Kinship and Political Developments of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index