The volume – whose chapters originated at panels at the International Byzantine Congress in Belgrade and at the IMC in Leeds – seeks to offer an introduction into various aspects of social and geographical mobility, and the intrinsic relationship between the two, as well as into the microstructures of social action in the Byzantine world during the high and late Middle Ages. Based on a balanced approach to the role of personal agency and social structure, the authors of the individual chapters seek to clarify how and why various kinds of people mobilized to either change place and/or social position, or to form groups whose actions shaped social reality both at the imperial centre and the provincial periphery.

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Title Page
Table of Contents
Claudia Rapp / Yannis Stouraitis: Microstructures and Mobility in Byzantium: An Introduction
Bibliography
Christos G. Makrypoulias: Ranks to Riches: The Social Mobility of Middle Byzantine Infantry Commanders
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Literature
Efi Ragia: Mutual Interest Groups in a Provincial Context
The village: mutual interest groups in an agrarian context
Violence, agrarian communities, and the soldiers
The phratriae/fatriae
Confraternities
Monasteries and churches
Concluding remarks
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Literature
Yannis Stouraitis: The Historiographical Image of the People and the Microstructures of Revolt in High-Medieval Constantinople
The mediated image of the rebellious people: a deconstruction
Microstructures and microdynamics of a Constantinopolitan revolt
People and power in 1042: concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Literature
Ekaterini Mitsiou: Mobile Criminals: Crime and Punishment in Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Epirus
Methodological framework
Justice and murder in thirteenth-century Epirus
Situational murders
Domestic violence/abuse
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Literature
Map
Christos Malatras: Towards the Upper Echelon: Patronage, Agency, and Social Ascent in Late Byzantium
Social ascent and the role of patronage
Service and social ascent
Social agency and patronage: the case of Michael Gabras
Social ascent and the independence of the protégé
Concluding remarks
Bibliography
Primary sources
Secondary Literature
Florence Liard: Pottery Traditions as Indicators of Interactions, Connectivity, and Microstructures in Byzantium
A new way of examining microstructures in Byzantium
Glazed White Wares
Sgraffito Wares
Middle Byzantine Styles and the Chalkida/Negroponte workshops
The so-called ˋThessaloniki Ware'
The debated ˋZeuxippus Ware'
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Bruno De Nicola: The Trip of a Medieval Physician: A Rare Description of Mobility in Mongol Anatolia
The manuscript, the letters, and the author
Between desolation and paradise on earth: contrasting views on Kastamonu and Sinop
A land of opportunities: mobility in medieval northern Anatolia
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
John Haldon: Mobility and Microstructures: Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
List of Figures
Ekaterini Mitsiou: Mobile Criminals: Crime and Punishment in Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Epirus
Florence Liard: Pottery Traditions as Indicators of Interactions, Connectivity, and Microstructures in Byzantium
Bruno De Nicola: The Trip of a Medieval Physician: A Rare Description of Mobility in Mongol Anatolia
Notes on Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Places
Index of Terms

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