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Ocherki Vizantiiskoi Kul`tury po Dannym Grecheskoi Agiografii
[ Essays on Byzantine culture according to the data of Greek hagiography]
Ed. by G.L. Kurbatov and G.E.Lebedeva
St. Petersburg: Aleteia, 1997 295 p p Serie: Vizantiiskaia Biblioteka Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm ISBN: 5893290216 Language: Russian
This classic monograph by a Russian Byzantinist, first published in 1917, contains a profound and original interpretation of the Lives of the Saints as the sources for a scientific reconstruction of the social, economic and political life of the common people in the 6th-12th centuries. In different chapters of book are analyzed such crucial issues as: population, urban life, functioning of Constantinople as capital of the Empire, the development of merchandise and handicrafts, life of the village and of the estate, the fate of the provinces before the collapse of the Empire in 1204. The authors of the preface and afterword present the life and portrait of the eminent historian (1886-1940) who wrote this unique, innovative and very useful book, anticipating the main ideas of modern historiography. Bibliographical references. List of hagiographic sources.
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