Byzantium in the Seventh Century: The Transformation of a CultureThis book presents the first analytical account in English of major developments within Byzantine culture, society and the state in the crucial formative period from c.610-717. The seventh century saw the final collapse of ancient urban civilization and municipal culture, the rise of Islam, the evolution of patterns of thought and social structure that made imperial iconoclasm possible, and the development of state apparatuses--military, civil and fiscal--typical of the middle Byzantine state. Also, during this period, orthodox Christianity finally became the unquestioned dominant culture and a religious framework of belief (to the exclusion of alternative systems, which were henceforth marginalized or proscribed). |
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Kwtu pwrmendet se perandori Heraklit i Romws rreth vitit 600 ftoi serbwt tw mbronin Ballkanin perwndimor nga sulmet avare dhe i lejoi ata qw nw tokat e mbrojtura tw vendoseshin si zotwr tw tyre. f47Nw vitin 687 perandori Justiniani u kthye nga Anatolia nw Thrakw e Maqedoni pwr t'i vwnw kwto nwn sundimin bizantin dhe transferoi serbw nw Azinw e Vogwl (Bythyni e Kapadhoki.f71.
Justiniani transferoi gjithashtu edhe banorw tw Qipros nw Epir (Qefaloni e Nikopol) e gjetiu.
Ai solli gjithashtu Mardaitw nga veriu i Sirisw nw Peloponez dhe Armenw nw Selanik.
Kwto popullsi ishin nw pwrgjithwsi ushtarw dhe tw burgosur.
Contents
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| 92 | |
Social relations and the economy rural society | 125 |
The state and its apparatus fiscal administration | 173 |
The state and its apparatus military administration | 208 |
Society state and law | 254 |
The imperial church and the politics of authority | 281 |
Religion and belief | 324 |
Forms of social and cultural organisation infrastructures and hierarchies | 376 |
Forms of representation language literature and the icon | 403 |
the transformation of a culture | 436 |
Further observations on the question of the late ancient city | 459 |
Bibliography | 462 |
Index | 482 |



