Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The last century of Roman power (c. 500 to c. 620): army, church, and countryside
- 2 Collapse or adaptation? The problem of the urban decline in late antique Greece
- 3 Invasion or inflation? Hoards and barbarians in sixth- and early seventh-century Greece
- 4 Dark-Age Greece (c. 620 to c. 800)
- 5 Revival and expansion (c. 800 to c. 900)
- 6 The beginning of prosperity (c. 900 to c. 1050)
- 7 Early medieval Greece and the Middle Byzantine economy
- 8 Social structures and Byzantine administration in early medieval Greece
- 9 Christianity in early medieval Greece
- 10 Conclusion: the people of early medieval Greece
- Bibliography
- Index
Series Editor's Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The last century of Roman power (c. 500 to c. 620): army, church, and countryside
- 2 Collapse or adaptation? The problem of the urban decline in late antique Greece
- 3 Invasion or inflation? Hoards and barbarians in sixth- and early seventh-century Greece
- 4 Dark-Age Greece (c. 620 to c. 800)
- 5 Revival and expansion (c. 800 to c. 900)
- 6 The beginning of prosperity (c. 900 to c. 1050)
- 7 Early medieval Greece and the Middle Byzantine economy
- 8 Social structures and Byzantine administration in early medieval Greece
- 9 Christianity in early medieval Greece
- 10 Conclusion: the people of early medieval Greece
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Edinburgh History of the Greeks is a multi-volume, chronological series covering the history of the Greek people from Antiquity to the present. Each volume combines political history with social and cultural history in order to tell the story of the Greek people over the course of recorded history in an exciting, novel, and innovatory way. Drawing on resources from anthropology, archaeology, and history, as well as political science, philology, art, literature, and law, the books will be rich and diverse in their coverage.
The Greeks suffer from too much history, some have said. Indeed, library bookshelves sag under the weight of the massive number of tomes devoted to the history of Greece during the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. This series differs from them by focusing on the history of a people, the Greeks, and not a place, Greece. The story will reflect the fluctuating dynamics of change while primary sources and accounts of the lives of individuals and communities will give life to the text.
The history of the Greeks over the long durée must be told on a vast and at times even global scale, and so the Greek world is not just taken to include the area traditionally associated with ancient Greece or the territory of the modern Greek state, but encompasses all areas where Greeks have settled, including the diaspora of modern times.
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- The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c. 500 to 1050The Early Middle Ages, pp. xPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2011