Life and Society in Byzantine Cappadocia,9780230361065

Life and Society in Byzantine Cappadocia

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ISBN13: 9780230361065
ISBN10: 0230361064
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-08-21
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This is the first in-depth historical study of Byzantine Cappadocia. The authors draw on extensive textual and archaeological materials to examine the nature and place of Cappadocia in the Byzantine Empire from the fourth through eleventh centuries.

Author Biography

J. Eric Cooper earned his DPhil from Oxford University, UK. Since then, he has worked for several leading Wall Street firms before founding the consultancy firm Akrites, LLC. He has published in several fields and maintains an active interest in Byzantine history and archaeology. Michael J. Decker is Maroulis Professor of Byzantine History and Orthodox Religion at the University of South Florida, USA. He earned his DPhil from Oxford University and was Andrew Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow at Rice University in Houston. He has written extensively on Byzantine Syria and agrarian history of the Levant.

Table of Contents

List of Figuresp. ix
List of Mapsp. x
Acknowledgementsp. xi
List of Abbreviationsp. xii
Introductionp. 1
Evidence: the written sourcesp. 2
Evidence: archaeologicalp. 3
Style, Cappadocia vs Kappadokia, references, and illustrationsp. 7
'A Vast and Admirable Land'p. 11
Cities and settlementp. 15
Population: how many people?p. 44
The Increase of the Earthp. 49
Land tenurep. 50
Arable farmingp. 55
Industryp. 67
Land of Beautiful Horsesp. 76
Equidsp. 76
Pastoralism and stockingp. 94
Other animalsp. 100
If One, Why So Many?p. 107
Early monasticism in Cappadociap. 108
Cappadocian monasteriesp. 119
A monastic landscape?p. 136
City of Godp. 139
God in the landp. 139
Churchesp. 148
Piety and religious observancep. 158
Elite Societyp. 175
Undercurrents of Cappadocian societyp. 177
Cappadocian society during Late Antiquityp. 180
Womenp. 183
The elite centrep. 187
Cappadocian society during the Dark Ages and Middle Periodp. 194
Cappadocian elite identityp. 211
The Warlordsp. 213
Rise of an elitep. 228
Conclusionp. 253
Notesp. 261
Bibliographyp. 288
Indexp. 316
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