Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium: Art, Archaeology, and EthnographyThis 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. |
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Contents
The Landscape of the Village | |
Chrysobull of 1319 south wall of the southwest chamber | |
Plan Panakton Attica | |
Density of ceramic fragments found in surface survey | |
Plan of medieval settlement Veloukovo medieval Loidoriki | |
Communication and the Village Church | |
The Village Woman | |
Village Men Village Labor | |
In the Service of the Church | |
The Body and the Soul | |
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| Title | Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium: Art, Archaeology, and Ethnography |
| Author | Sharon E. J. Gerstel |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2015 |
| ISBN | 1316297993, 9781316297995 |
| Subjects | › › Art / History / Medieval History / Social History Social Science / Archaeology Social Science / Sociology / Rural |
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