Peasant Society in the Late Byzantine Empire A Social and Demographic Study |
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| Author:
| Laiou-Thomadakis, Angeliki E. |
| Series title: | Princeton Legacy Library |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-65545-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 2019 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $94.99 |
Book Description:
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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
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