Land and Privilege in Byzantium: The Institution of Pronoia

Mark C. Bartusis

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511841903

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The Institution of Pronoia

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Mark C. Bartusis, Northern State University, South Dakota

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: February 2013
Print publication year:: 2013
Online ISBN:: 9780511841903
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511841903

Subjects:: Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies

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A pronoia was a type of conditional grant from the emperor, often to soldiers, of various properties and privileges. In large measure the institution of pronoia characterized social and economic relations in later Byzantium, and its study is the study of later Byzantium. Filling the need for a comprehensive study of the institution, this book examines the origin, evolution and characteristics of pronoia, focusing particularly on the later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. But the book is much more than a study of a single institution. With a broad chronological scope extending from the mid-tenth to the mid-fifteenth century, it incorporates the latest understanding of Byzantine agrarian relations, taxation, administration and the economy, as it deals with relations between the emperor, monastic and lay landholders, including soldiers and peasants. Particular attention is paid to the relation between the pronoia and Western European, Slavic and Middle Eastern institutions, especially the Ottoman timar.

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Land and Privilege in Byzantium

The Institution of Pronoia

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Land and Privilege in Byzantium - Half title page
pp i-ii

Land and Privilege in Byzantium - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-x

Maps
pp xi-xi

Figures
pp xii-xii

Tables
pp xiii-xiv

List of major sources
pp xv-xxiii

Acknowledgments
pp xxiv-xxiv

A note on transliteration, pronunciation, and dates
pp xxv-xxvi

Abbreviations
pp xxvii-xxxiv

Glossary
pp xxxv-xli

List of rulers
pp xlii-xliv

Frontispiece
pp xlv-xlv

Frontispiece
pp xlvi-xlvi

Frontispiece
pp xlvii-xlvii

Frontispiece
pp xlviii-xlviii

Frontispiece
pp xlix-l

Introduction
pp 1-13

1 - The non-technical senses of the word pronoia
pp 14-31

2 - Pronoia during the twelfth century
pp 32-63

3 - Choniates’ “gifts of paroikoi”
pp 64-111

4 - Origins
pp 112-170

5 - Pronoia during the period of exile (1204–1261)
pp 171-240

6 - Pronoia during the era of Michael VIII Palaiologos
pp 241-282

7 - Terminology, late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
pp 283-335

8 - The nature of pronoia, ca. 1282–ca. 1371
pp 336-549

9 - Pronoia in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
pp 550-578

10 - Pronoia and timar
pp 579-596

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