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Author Gerstel, Sharon E. J., author.

Title Rural lives and landscapes in late Byzantium : art, archaeology and ethnography / Sharon E.J. Gerstel
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 207 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents The landscape of the village -- Communication and the village church -- The village woman -- Village men, village labor -- In the service of the church -- The body and the soul
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-196) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Villages -- Byzantine Empire -- History
Peasants -- Byzantine Empire -- History
Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Byzantine Empire -- History
Painting, Byzantine -- History
Social archaeology -- Mediterranean Region
Ethnoarchaeology -- Mediterranean Region
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Economic history
Ethnoarchaeology
Landscapes -- Social aspects
Manners and customs
Painting, Byzantine
Peasants
Rural conditions
Social archaeology
Villages
Landschaft
Landleben
Kirchenbau
Wandmalerei
BondesamhÀllet.
Byar -- historia.
Bysantinsk mÄlarkonst.
Etnoarkeologi.
SUBJECT Byzantine Empire -- Rural conditions
Byzantine Empire -- Economic conditions
Byzantine Empire -- Social life and customs
Subject Byzantine Empire
Mediterranean Region
Byzantinisches Reich
Griechenland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781139024891
1139024892
9781316318171
1316318176