Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian

Informationen zum Autor Peter Sarris is Lecturer in Medieval History and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and All Souls College, Oxford. Klappentext Examines the social and economic context of the reign of the Emperor Justinian (527 65). Zusammenfassung Examines the social and economic context of the reign of the Emperor Justinian (527-65) and argues that! instead of the omnipotent autocrat of much imperial propaganda! there emerges an Emperor desperately trying to reinforce the fiscal basis of the state in the face of large-scale aristocratic tax-evasion and resistance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Egypt and the political economy of empire; 2. The Apion archive: economic structure and estate accounts; 3. Labour and administration: the evidence of the contractual papyri; 4. Letters and petitions: social relations in the sixth-century Oxyrhynchite; 5. The Apiones and their analogues; 6. On the margins of magnate power: Dioscorus and Aphrodito; 7. Landscapes of power: the great estate beyond Egypt; 8. The historiography of the great estate; 9. The great estate and the imperial authorities; 10. The rise of the great estate; 11. Economy and society in the age of Justinian; Bibliography.

Klappentext
Examines the social and economic context of the reign of the Emperor Justinian (527???65).

Zusammenfassung
Examines the social and economic context of the reign of the Emperor Justinian (527-65) and argues that, instead of the omnipotent autocrat of much imperial propaganda, there emerges an Emperor desperately trying to reinforce the fiscal basis of the state in the face of large-scale aristocratic tax-evasion and resistance.

Inhalt
Introduction; 1. Egypt and the political economy of empire; 2. The Apion archive: economic structure and estate accounts; 3. Labour and administration: the evidence of the contractual papyri; 4. Letters and petitions: social relations in the sixth-century Oxyrhynchite; 5. The Apiones and their analogues; 6. On the margins of magnate power: Dioscorus and Aphrodito; 7. Landscapes of power: the great estate beyond Egypt; 8. The historiography of the great estate; 9. The great estate and the imperial authorities; 10. The rise of the great estate; 11. Economy and society in the age of Justinian; Bibliography.

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