Argues that Late Byzantine rural communities were resilient and able to transform their socioeconomic strategies in the face of crisis.

This is the first book to examine the late Byzantine village through written, archaeological and painted sources.

Recent publications on urbanism and the rural environment in Late Antiquity, most of which explore a single region or narrow chronological niche, have emphasize

This is the first book to examine the late Byzantine peasantry through written, archaeological, ethnographic and painted sources. Investigations of the infrastr

This Handbook is the first to consider the interrelated subjects of gender and sexuality in the Eastern Roman Empire from an interdisciplinary perspective. Draw