Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: A Sourcebook von Claudia Rapp | ISBN 9783847113416

Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: A Sourcebook

von Claudia Rapp und weiteren
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinClaudia Rapp
Autor / AutorinMatthew Kinloch
Autor / AutorinDirk Krausmüller
Autor / AutorinEkaterini Mitsiou
Autor / AutorinIlias Nesseris
Autor / AutorinChristodoulos Papavarnavas
Autor / AutorinJohannes Preiser-Kapeller
Autor / AutorinGiulia Rossetto
Autor / AutorinRustam Shukurov
Autor / AutorinGrigori Simeonov
Buchcover Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: A Sourcebook | Claudia Rapp | EAN 9783847113416 | ISBN 3-8471-1341-0 | ISBN 978-3-8471-1341-6
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Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: A Sourcebook

von Claudia Rapp und weiteren
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinClaudia Rapp
Autor / AutorinMatthew Kinloch
Autor / AutorinDirk Krausmüller
Autor / AutorinEkaterini Mitsiou
Autor / AutorinIlias Nesseris
Autor / AutorinChristodoulos Papavarnavas
Autor / AutorinJohannes Preiser-Kapeller
Autor / AutorinGiulia Rossetto
Autor / AutorinRustam Shukurov
Autor / AutorinGrigori Simeonov
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.