TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leidholm,Nathan
TI  - Elite Byzantine Kinship, ca. 950-1204: Blood, Reputation, and the Genos 
T2  - Beyond Medieval Europe
SN  - 9781641890281
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Leeds : 
PB  - ARC Humanities Press, 
KW  - Aristocracy (Social class)
KW  - Byzantine Empire
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - Kinship
KW  - HISTORY / Byzantine Empire
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Byzantine Aristocracy
KW  - Cultural History of Byzantium
KW  - History of the Family
KW  - Social History of Byzantium
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; List of Abbreviations --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Defining “the Family” in Byzantine Sources and the Modern Historiography --; Chapter 2. The Language of Kinship --; Chapter 3. Marriage Impediments and the Concept of Family --; Chapter 4. Interrogating Consanguinity in a Byzantine Context --; Chapter 5. Family Names and the Politics of Reputation --; Chapter 6. Kinship and Political Developments of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries --; Conclusion --; Select Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - By the end of the twelfth century, the Byzantine ‹i›genos ‹/I› was a politically effective social group based upon ties of consanguineous kinship, but, importantly, it was also a cultural construct, an idea that held very real power, yet defies easy categorization. This study explores the role and function of the Byzantine aristocratic family group, or ‹i›genos‹/i›, as a distinct social entity, particularly its political and cultural role, as it appears in a variety of sources in the tenth through twelfth centuries; This study explores the role and function of the Byzantine aristocratic family group, or genos, as a distinct social entity, particularly its political and cultural role, as it appears in a variety of sources in the tenth through twelfth centuries. While the genos has served as a central component of many historical arguments attempting to explain the changes occurring in this period, no scholar has yet produced a study focused on the genos as a social unit, and even the concept’s basic definition remains unclear. At the same time, historians of Late Antiquity, Medieval Europe, and Byzantium have all struggled to find meaningful ways to analyze and interpret kinship structures beyond the household or nuclear family. This work seeks to ameliorate these shortcomings and, in so doing, addresses aspects of cultural, social, and political change in Byzantium through the lens of kinship
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781641890298?locatt=mode:legacy
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