Elite Byzantine kinship, ca. 950-1204: blood, reputation, and the Genos

By the end of the twelfth century, the Byzantine ‹i›genos ‹/I› was a politically effective social group based upon ties of consanguineous kinship, but, importantly, it was also a cultural construct, an idea that held very real power, yet defies easy categorization. This study explores the role and f...

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1. Verfasser: Leidholm, Nathan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leeds Arc Humanities Press [2019]
Schriftenreihe:Beyond Medieval Europe
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Zusammenfassung:By the end of the twelfth century, the Byzantine ‹i›genos ‹/I› was a politically effective social group based upon ties of consanguineous kinship, but, importantly, it was also a cultural construct, an idea that held very real power, yet defies easy categorization. This study explores the role and function of the Byzantine aristocratic family group, or ‹i›genos‹/i›, 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
Beschreibung:Titel der zugrundeliegenden Dissertation: Political families in Byzantium: the social and cultural significance of the Genos as kin group, c. 900–1150
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 186 Seiten)
ISBN:9781641890298
DOI:10.1515/9781641890298

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