Economy and society in the age of Justinian /

Examines the social and economic context of the reign of the Emperor Justinian (527-65) and argues that, instead of the omnipotent autocrat of much imperial propaganda, there emerges an emperor desperately trying to reinforce the fiscal basis of the state in the face of large-scale aristocratic tax-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sarris, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Temas:
Justinian > I, > Emperor of the East, > 483?-565.
Justinian > I, > Emperor of the East, > 483?-565
527-565
HISTORY.
Economic history
Social conditions
Byzantine Empire > Economic conditions.
Byzantine Empire > Social conditions.
Byzantine Empire > History > Justinian I, 527-565.
Empire byzantin > Histoire > 527-565 (Justinien Ier)
Byzantine Empire
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Egypt and the political economy of empire; CHAPTER 2 The Apion archive: economic structure and estate accounts; CHAPTER 3 Labour and administration: the evidence of the contractual papyri; CHAPTER 4 Letters and petitions: social relations in the sixth-century Oxyrhynchite; CHAPTER 5 The Apiones and their analogues; CHAPTER 6 On the margins of magnate power: Dioscorus and Aphrodito; CHAPTER 7 Landscapes of power: the great estate beyond Egypt; CHAPTER 8 The historiography of the great estate.

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