Mobility and migration in Byzantium : a sourcebook / Claudia Rapp, Matthew Kinloch, Dirk Krausmüller... [et al.]

Date : 2023

Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 978-3-8471-1341-6

EAN : 9783847113416

Émigration et immigration -- Empire byzantin

Mobilité spatiale -- Empire byzantin

Rapp, Claudia (1961-....) (Auteur / author)

Kinloch, Matthew (19..-....) (Auteur / author)

Krausmüller, Dirk (19..-....) (Auteur / author)

Collection : Moving Byzantium / edited by Claudia Rapp and Johannes Preiser-Kapeller / Göttingen : V & R unipress, Vienna University Press , 2023-

Résumé / Abstract : Mobility and migration were not uncommon in Byzantium, as is true for all societies. Yet, scholarship is only beginning to pay attention to these phenomena. This book presents in English translation a wide array of relevant source texts from ca. 650 to ca. 1450 originally written in medieval Greek: from administrative records, saints’ lives and letters by churchmen to ego-documents by ambassadors and historical narratives by court historians. Each source text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, commentary and further bibliography, thus making the book accessible to both scholars and students and laying the groundwork for future research on the internal dynamics of Byzantine society.