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Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800-1500 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800-1500 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
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This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans
between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. While several scholars
have recognized the problems which various outlaw groups caused in
the region during the Middle Ages, few have given much attention to
the bandits themselves, their origins, their reasons for taking up
brigandage, and the steps taken by the central authorities to
control their activity. Among other things, this book identifies
three main sources of banditry: shepherds, soldiers and peasants.
Far from being 'lone wolves', these men operated within
well-defined social networks. Poverty played a decisive role in
driving them to a life of crime, but there is strong evidence to
suggest that the growing economic prosperity in parts of the
Balkans from the ninth century onwards may have also contributed to
the rise of the phenomenon.
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