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The history of Byzantium pivots around the eleventh century, during which it reached its apogee in terms of power, prestige, and territorial extension, only then to plunge into steep political decline following serious military defeats and extensive territorial losses. The political, economic, and intellectual history of the period is reasonably well understood, but not so what was happening in that crucial intermediary sphere, the social order, which both shaped and was shaped by contemporary ideas and brute economic developments. This volume aims to deepen understanding of Byzantine society by examining material evidence for settlements and production in different regions and by sifting through the far from plentiful literary and documentary sources in order to track what was happening in town and country. There is evidence of significant change: the pattern of landownership continued to shift in favour of those with power and wealth, but there was sustained and effective resistance from peasant villages. Provincial towns prospered in what was an era of sustained economic growth, and, through newly emboldened local elites, took a more active part in public affairs. In the capital the middling classes, comprising much of officialdom and leading traders, gained in importance, while the twin military and civilian elites were merging to form a single governing class. However, despite this social upheaval, careful analysis of these various factors by a range of leading Byzantine historians and archaeologists leads to the overarching conclusion that it was not so much internal structural changes which contributed to the vertiginous decline suffered by Byzantium in the late eleventh century, as the unprecedented combination of dangerous adversaries on different fronts, in the east, north, and west.

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Oxford Studies In Byzantium

Editorial Board

ja elsnercatherine holmes

james howard-johnstonelizabeth jeffreys

hugh kennedymarc lauxtermann

paul magdalinohenry Maguire

cyril mangomarlia mango

claudia rappjean-pierre sodini

jonathan shepard

Oxford Studies In Byzantium

Oxford Studies in Byzantium consists of scholarly monographs and editions on the history, literature, thought, and material culture of the Byzantine world.

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The Letters of Psellos

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Edited by Michael Jeffreys and Marc D. Lauxtermann

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The Early Byzantine Concentric Churches of Jerusalem

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Law, Power, and Imperial Ideology in the Iconoclast Era

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Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World after 1150

Edited by Jonathan Harris, Catherine Holmes, and Eugenia Russell

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Contents

Introduction
James Howard-Johnston

Transformations in Byzantine Society in the Eleventh Century, Particularly in Constantinople
Jean-Claude Cheynet

The Social Views of Michael Attaleiates
Dimitris Krallis

Social Change in the Countryside of Eleventh-Century Byzantium
Kostis Smyrlis

Before and After the Eleventh Century ad in the Territory of Sagalassos: Settlement Evolution
Eva Kaptijn and Marc Waelkens

What Went Wrong? Decline and Ruralization in Eleventh-Century Anatolia: The Archaeological Record
Philipp Niewhner

Greece in the Eleventh Century
Pamela Armstrong

New Light on the Society of Byzantine Italy
Ghislaine Noy

Social Change in Eleventh-Century Armenia: The Evidence from Tarn
Tim Greenwood

Byzantium in the Eleventh Century: General Reflections
James Howard-Johnston

Whilst every effort has been made to secure permission to reproduce the illustrations, we may have failed in a few cases to trace the copyright holders. If contacted, the publisher will be pleased to rectify any omissions at the earliest opportunity.

Acta Sanctorum

Annual of the British School at Athens

Archaiologikon Deltion

To Archaiologiko Ergo ste Makedonia kai ste Thrake

American Journal of Archaeology

Archeologia Medievale

Archologischer Anzeiger

Archaeologia Iugoslavica

British Archaeological Reports

Bulletin de Correspondance Hellnique

Byzantinische Forschungen

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies

Byzantinisch-neugriechische Jahrbcher

Byzantinoslavica

Byzantinische Zeitschrift

Collection de lcole Franaise de Rome

Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae

Dumbarton Oaks Papers

Deltion tes Christianikes Archaiologikes Hetaireias

Fonti per la storia dItalia

International Journal of the Classical Tradition

Bulletin de lInstitut Archologique Russe Constantinople

Istanbuler Mitteilungen

Jahrbuch der sterreichischen Byzantinistik

Mlanges de lcole franaise de Rome. Moyen ge

Monumenta Germaniae Historica

MGH, Scriptores

Numismatic Chronicle

Past and Present

Quellen und Forschungen aus Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken

Revue des tudes byzantines

Revue des tudes Grecques

Rerum Italicarum Scriptores

Tabula Imperii Byzantini

Travaux et Mmoires

Pamela Armstrong is a Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, Oxford.
Jean-Claude Cheynet is Emeritus Professor of Byzantine History at the Universit Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV).
Tim Greenwood is Reader in History at the University of St Andrews.
James Howard-Johnston is Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Eva Kaptijn is an Archaeologist in the Directorate Earth and History of Life at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.
Dimitris Krallis is Associate Professor at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University.
Philipp Niewhner is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Gttingen.
Ghislaine Noy is Professor of Archaeology at the cole Nationale des Chartes.
Kostis Smyrlis is Associate Professor of History at New York University.
Marc Waelkens is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology in the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

This volume publishes, rather belatedly, the proceedings of a workshop on the social order in eleventh-century Byzantium held in Oxford in May 2011, the third in a series of workshops funded by the British Academy, on The Transformation of Byzantium: Law, Literature and Society in the Eleventh Century

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