Approaching Social Hierarchies in Byzantium

Introduction

1 Voicing the Rich and the Poor in Byzantium, a Methodological Problem

Anna C. Kelley and Flavia Vanni

2 Being poor in Byzantium

Chris Wickham

Part I: Working Lives

3 Who ate all the pepper? Consumers and consumables in the Mediterranean c. AD 1-800

Rebecca Darley

4 Individual or collective? Stucco-workers in Middle and Late Byzantine construction sites.

Flavia Vanni

5 No lilies of the field: Teens and children at work

Cecily Hennessy

Part II: The Material World in Life and Death

6 Trickling down, trickling up, and holding things together with crossed diagonals

Eunice Dauterman Maguire

7 The reactions of the (relatively) poor to the art of the elite

Henry Maguire

8 Hierarchy, economy, piety: Late Antique funerary textiles from Egypt in context

Anna C. Kelley

Part III: The Stratification of Space

9 Competitive piety: Rural patrons in Byzantine Arabia and Palaestina, c.500-c.630

Daniel Reynolds

10 Contextualizing secular representations in Marathos, Mani

Mark Pawlowski

11 'The Poor shall eat and be satisfied': the ideal of Christian poverty in the refectories of Constantinople

Jessica Varsallona

Part IV: Philanthropy and Social Obligation

12 Poverty, imperial philanthropy, and political ideology in the historical accounts of Michael Psellos and Michael Attaleiates

Francisco Lopez Santos-Kornberger

13 Fraudulent beggars and fake monks: unease about almsgiving in Late Antiquity

Jaclyn Maxwell

14 'Charity begins at the monastery': Elite female philanthropy in the Palaiologan Period

Lauren Wainwright

15 Poor in this world but not in the next? The commemoration of the Dead among the Byzantine non-elite (ca. 300-1100)

Zachary Chitwood

Conclusion

16 Looking for the poor in Byzantium: an epilogue

Leslie Brubaker

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• História antiga: a c 500 CE
• História social e cultural
• História económica
• Classes sociais

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