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Gender, Society and Economic Life in Byzantium (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Gender, Society and Economic Life in Byzantium (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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The studies in this volume reflect the author's interest in history
as it was lived: not only the social and economic structures, but
the men and women, collectively and individually, who made them
function. The role of women in Byzantine economy and society is
found to be much more important than had been believed; their
participation in trade and manufacturing is established, as is the
role of aristocratic women in the economic affairs of the
household; the question of female literacy is also discussed. Two
studies on the Byzantine family, based in large part on the legal
sources, examine the formation of matrimonial ties as well as the
practice of divorce and concubinage in the 13th century. The second
part of the volume is focused on the economy of exchange in
Byzantium between 1204 and the fall of the Empire. Byzantine trade
and manufacturing are placed in the context of the economic
developments of the eastern Mediterranean, with the conclusion
that, whereas the activities of Byzantine and Greek merchants were
much more considerable than scholars had thought, they were
subordinated to the needs of the Italian-dominated trade system,
while Byzantine manufacturing declined. Les etudes assemblees dans
ce volume refletent l'interAt de leur auteur pour l'histoire telle
qu'elle etait vecue; non seulement en ce qui concerne les
structures sociales et economiques, mais aussi les hommes et les
femmes, collectivement et individuellement, qui permettaient A
celles-ci de fonctionner. Le rAle des femmes dans la societe et
l'economie byzantine se revele comme ayant beaucoup plus
d'importance qu'on ne le pensait auparavant; leur participation au
commerce et A l'industrie est un fait etabli, tout comme l'est le
rAle des femmes aristocrates dans les affaires economiques du
foyer. Le theme de l'alphabetisation des femmes est aussi soueve.
Deux etudes sur la famille byzantine, se basant en grande partie
sur des sources legales, exa
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