ISBN:
9780429764998
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (287 pages)
Series Statement:
Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies v.31
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
307.3/362091822
Keywords:
Civilization, Medieval
;
Cities and towns, Medieval-Mediterranean Region
;
City and town life-Mediterranean Region-History-To 1500
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction: a neighbourhood perspective on Byzantine cities -- PART I: Defining Byzantine neighbourhoods -- 1 The view from Byzantine texts -- 2 The view from Byzantine archaeology -- PART II: Byzantine neighbourhoods as social spaces -- 3 Who is the person living next door? Neighbourly relations in early Byzantine Assos -- 4 Urban space and collective action in Late Antique Arsinoë -- 5 Water and social relationships in early Byzantine neighbourhoods -- PART III: Byzantine neighbourhoods as political agents -- 6 The Oxeia: a neighbourhood biography -- 7 Gortyn, Eleutherna, and their neighbourhoods: the politics of transformation (fourth to early ninth centuries) -- 8 A tale of two cities: Thebes and Chalcis in a world of change (ninth to fifteenth centuries) -- 9 Privacy, friendship, and social regulation in Byzantine neighbourhoods -- Index.
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