Elite Byzantine kinship, ca. 950-1204 : blood, reputation, and the genos / by Nathan Leidholm
Material type: TextSeries: Beyond medieval EuropePublisher: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (x, 186 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781641890298
- 1641890290
- Aristocracy (Social class) -- Byzantine Empire
- Kinship -- Byzantine Empire
- Elite (Social sciences) -- Byzantine Empire
- Byzantine Empire -- History -- 527-1081
- Byzantine Empire -- History -- Comneni dynasty, 1081-1185
- Byzantine Empire -- History -- Angeli, 1185-1204
- Byzantine Empire -- Social conditions
- Parenté -- Empire byzantin
- Élite (Sciences sociales) -- Empire byzantin
- Empire byzantin -- Histoire -- 527-1081
- Empire byzantin -- Histoire -- 1081-1185 (Dynastie des Comnènes)
- Empire byzantin -- Histoire -- 1185-1204 (Dynastie des Anges)
- HISTORY -- Byzantine Empire
- Aristocracy (Social class)
- Comneni Dynasty (Byzantine Empire)
- Elite (Social sciences)
- Kinship
- Social conditions
- Byzantine Empire
- 527-1204
- 949.502 23
- 940.1 22
- HT653.B98 L45 2019
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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 2016.
This study explores the role and function of the Byzantine aristocratic family group, or genos, as a distinct social entity, particularly its political and cultural role, as it appears in a variety of sources in the tenth through twelfth centuries. While the genos has served as a central component of many historical arguments attempting to explain the changes occurring in this period, no scholar has yet produced a study focused on the genos as a social unit, and even the concept's basic definition remains unclear. At the same time, historians of Late Antiquity, Medieval Europe, and Byzantium have all struggled to find meaningful ways to analyze and interpret kinship structures beyond the household or nuclear family. This work seeks to ameliorate these shortcomings and, in so doing, addresses aspects of cultural, social, and political change in Byzantium through the lens of kinship
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-179)
Defining 'the family' in Byzantine sources and the modern historiography -- The language of kinship -- Marriage impediments and the concept of family -- Interrogating consanguinity in a Byzantine context -- Family names and the politics of reputation -- Kinship and political developments of the eleventh and twelfth centuries
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In English.
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