Elite Byzantine kinship, ca. 950-1204 : blood, reputation, and the genos /

Elite Byzantine kinship, ca. 950-1204 : blood, reputation, and the genos /

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Author / Creator:	Leidholm, Nathan (Nathan Paul), author.
Imprint:	Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	1 online resource (x, 186 pages) : illustrations, map
Language:	English
Series:	Beyond medieval Europe Beyond medieval Europe.
Subject:	Aristocracy (Social class) -- Byzantine Empire. Kinship -- Byzantine Empire. Elite (Social sciences) -- Byzantine Empire. Aristocracy (Social class) Comneni Dynasty (Byzantine Empire) Elite (Social sciences) Kinship. Social conditions. Byzantine Empire -- History -- 527-1081. Byzantine Empire -- History -- Comneni dynasty, 1081-1185. Byzantine Empire -- History -- Angeli, 1185-1204. Byzantine Empire -- Social conditions. Byzantine Empire. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12542386

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ISBN:	9781641890298 1641890290 9781641890281 1641890282
Notes:	Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 2016. Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-179) In English. Description based on print version record
Summary:	This study explores the role and function of the Byzantine aristocratic family group, or genos, as a distinct social entity, particularly its political and cultural role, as it appears in a variety of sources in the tenth through twelfth centuries. While the genos has served as a central component of many historical arguments attempting to explain the changes occurring in this period, no scholar has yet produced a study focused on the genos as a social unit, and even the concept's basic definition remains unclear. At the same time, historians of Late Antiquity, Medieval Europe, and Byzantium have all struggled to find meaningful ways to analyze and interpret kinship structures beyond the household or nuclear family. This work seeks to ameliorate these shortcomings and, in so doing, addresses aspects of cultural, social, and political change in Byzantium through the lens of kinship
Other form:	Print version: Leidholm, Nathan (Nathan Paul). Elite Byzantine kinship, ca. 950-1204. Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2019] 1641890282
Standard no.:	10.1515/9781641890298.

Table of Contents:

Defining 'the family' in Byzantine sources and the modern historiography
The language of kinship
Marriage impediments and the concept of family
Interrogating consanguinity in a Byzantine context
Family names and the politics of reputation
Kinship and political developments of the eleventh and twelfth centuries