Elite Byzantine Kinship, ca. 950-1204

Elite Byzantine Kinship, ca. 950-1204

Blood, Reputation, and the Genos

  • Autor: Leidholm, Nathan
  • Editor: Arc Humanities Press
  • Colección: Beyond Medieval Europe
  • ISBN: 9781641890281
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781641890298
  • Lugar de publicación:  York , Reino Unido
  • Año de publicación digital: 2019
  • Mes: Agosto
  • Páginas: 200
  • DDC: 949.502
  • Idioma: Ingles
By the end of the twelfth century, the Byzantine <i>genos </I> was a politically effective social group based upon ties of consanguineous kinship, but, importantly, it was also a cultural construct, an idea that held very real power, yet defies easy categorization. This study explores the role and function of the Byzantine aristocratic family group, or <i>genos</i>, 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.
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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