With original essays by leading scholars, this book explores the social history of the medieval eastern Roman Empire and offers illuminating new insights into our knowledge of Byzantine society.\u003cbr /\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides interconnected essays of original scholarship relating to the social history of the Byzantine empire\u003cbr /\u003e \u003c/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research in the study of Byzantine society\u003cbr /\u003e \u003c/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes helpful glossaries of sociological/theoretical terms and Byzantine/medieval terms\u003c/li\u003e \u003c/ul\u003e