Approaches To The Byzantine Family
Publisher: Gower Publishing Ltd
Published: 2013
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9781409411581
Description: "Approaches to the Byzantine Family Price: £70.00 (exclusive of VAT) How to buy ebooks Imprint: Ashgate Variorum Illustrations: Includes 44 b&w illustrations Published: October 2013 Format: 234 x 156 mm Extent: 446 pages Binding: ebook ePUB (Also available in ebook PDF) Other editions: Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4094-7219-3 ISBN Short: 9781409472193 BL Reference: 306.8509495--dc23 LoC Control No: 2013008921 Print friendly information sheet Send to a friend Recommended suppliers: kobobooks.com books.google.co.uk/ebooks ebooks.com amazon.co.uk Edited by Leslie Brubaker, Birmingham University, UK and Shaun Tougher, Cardiff University, UK Series : Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies: 14 The study of the family is one of the major lacunas in Byzantine Studies. Angeliki Laiou remarked in 1989 that ‘the study of the Byzantine family is still in its infancy’, and this assertion remains true today. The present volume addresses this lacuna. It comprises 19 chapters written by international experts in the field which take a variety of approaches to the study of the Byzantine family, and embrace a chronological span from the later Roman to the late Byzantine empire. The context is established by chapters focusing on the Roman roots of the Byzantine family, the Christianisation of the family, and the nature of the family in contemporaneous cultures (the late antique west and the Islamic east). Key methodological approaches to the Byzantine family are highlighted and discussed, in particular prosopographical and life course approaches.

Overall, the diversity of families that existed in Byzantium (blood, fictive, metaphorical) is emphasised, and chapters consider the specific cases of ascetic, monastic, aristocratic and peasant families, as well as the imperial family, which is illuminated by the comparative case of a Caliphal family. The volume is topped and tailed by a Preface and an Afterword by the editors, which address the state of the field and consider the way ahead. Thus the volume is vital in putting the subject of the Byzantine Family in sharp focus and setting the research agenda for the future"--