Land and Privilege in Byzantium : The Institution of Pronoia


Mark C. Bartusis
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012
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1 online resource (750 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Maps; Figures; Tables; List of major sources; Acknowledgments; A note on transliteration, pronunciation, and dates; Dates; Abbreviations; Glossary; List of rulers; Byzantine emperors; Rulers in Epiros; Rulers in Thessaloniki; Despots in the Morea; Emperors of Trebizond; Rulers of Serbia; Tsars of Bulgaria; Ottoman Turkish Rulers; Introduction; The historiography of pronoia; The approach; 1 The non-technical senses of the word pronoia; Simple "care" or "solicitude"; Divine and imperial "solicitude"; "Maintenance"; [1.1] Anna Komnene on her father's orphanage (ca. 1150). - "Administration" or "management"The verb; Pronoetes; 2 Pronoia during the twelfth century; Ta pronoiatika; [2.1] The Zavorda Treatise; The pronoia of the deceased Synadenos; [2.2] Typikon for the Pantokrator monastery mentioning the pronoia of Synadenos (1136); Pankratios Anemas; [2.3] Act of the doux of Thessaloniki John Kontostephanos for the monastery of Lavra (1162); The Cumans of Moglena; [2.4] Praktikon of Andronikos Vatatzes for the monastery of Lavra regarding the Cumans of Moglena (1181). - Logisima and exkousseiai for the benefit of a third partyThe exkousseia of paroikoi; The number of paroikoi; Ateles and eleutheros status of the paroikoi; The nature of the concession; Changes in status and terminology: aktemon to zeugaratos, exkousseiai to "gifts of paroikoi"; Laymen and gifts of paroikoi; Analysis of the Choniates passage; [3.2] Marginal note to the History attributed to Skoutariotes (end of thirteenth century or later); Evidence to support Choniates; [3.3] Choniates on the brothers Peter and Asen (early thirteenth century). - [2.5] Prostaxis of Andronikos I Komnenos for the monastery of Lavra regarding the Cumans of Moglena (1184)The Skordiles family of Crete; [2.6] Act of the doux of Crete Constantine Doukas for the Skordiles family (1183 or 1192); Observations; 3 Choniates' "gifts of paroikoi"; [3.1] Choniates on "gifts of paroikoi" (early thirteenth century); "Gifts of paroikoi" in other sources and its meaning; Byzantine taxation in the eleventh and twelfth centuries; Exempting and reducing taxes; The simple logisimon and the logisimon autourgion solemnion; The exkousseia. - [3.4] Accord between Venice and Boniface of Montferrat (1204)[3.5] Lysis of Alexios III Angelos for the monastery of St. John on Patmos (1196); 4 Origins; Problems after the death of Basil II; Solutions; Alternatives to cash; Grants of immovable property; The 1070s; [4.1] Chrysobull of Michael VII Doukas for Andronikos Doukas (1073),and Praktikon of the official Adam for Andronikos Doukas (1073); [4.2] Typikon of Gregory Pakourianos for the monastery of Petritzos-Backovo near Stenimachos (1083); [4.3] Chrysobull of Alexios I Komnenos for Leo Kephalas regarding Mesolimna (1084). - [4.4] Chrysobull of Alexios I Komnenos for Leo Kephalas regarding Tadrinou (1082). - The first comprehensive analysis for over fifty years of pronoia and its importance in the history of later Byzantium.
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