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

Gerstel, Sharon E. J., author

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\"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.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: 1081-1453 / Villages Byzantine Empire History. / Peasants Byzantine Empire History. / Landscapes Social aspects Byzantine Empire History. / Painting, Byzantine History. / Byzantine antiquities. / Social archaeology Mediterranean Region. / Ethnoarchaeology Mediterranean Region. / Civilization. / Economic history. / Ethnoarchaeology. / Landscapes Social aspects. / Manners and customs. / Painting, Byzantine. / Peasants. / Rural conditions. / Social archaeology. / Villages. / Bondesamhèallet. / Byar historia. / Bysantinsk mêalarkonst. / Etnoarkeologi. / Byzantine Empire Rural conditions. / Byzantine Empire Economic conditions. / Byzantine Empire Civilization 1081-1453. / Byzantine Empire Social life and customs. / Byzantine Empire. / Mediterranean Region. / Bysantinska riket.
• ISBN: 9780521851596, 0521851599

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HN11.G47 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE