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.<br><ul><li>Provides interconnected essays of original scholarship relating to the social history of the Byzantine empire<br><li>Offers groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research in the study of Byzantine society<br><li>Includes helpful glossaries of sociological/theoretical terms and Byzantine/medieval terms</ul>