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Book reviews Al-Masaq, Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2005 The Byzantines GUGLIELMO CAVALLO (Ed.), 1997 Chicago: University of Chicago Press 293 pp. (Paperback) ISBN 0-226-09792-7 This book is a collection of essays originally published in 1992 as L’Uomo bizantino. Three chapters were originally published in English; the others, formerly in Italian, French and German, have been translated into English for this edition. There are ten essays, each written by a different scholar, together with an introduction from the editor. The aim, set forth in the introduction, is to seek out the characteristics that distinguish the Byzantines from earlier, and presumably, their contemporary medieval, civilisations. In this, the book adopts a novel, and welcome, approach to understanding the Byzantine world. Few modern texts have sought to examine closely the people themselves. The reasons for this are not hard to discern. They relate to the paucity of evidence of ordinary life and the thousand-year time-line of the empire itself. Those are issues a book such as this must continually address, both to avoid making unsupportable generalisations on the one hand, and drawing banal conclusions on the other. The first chapters, on the poor, by Evelyne Patlagen, and on the peasantry by Alexander Kazhdan, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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Al-Masaq, Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2005 The Byzantines GUGLIELMO CAVALLO (Ed.), 1997 Chicago: University of Chicago Press 293 pp. (Paperback) ISBN 0-226-09792-7 This book is a collection of essays originally published in 1992 as L’Uomo bizantino. Three chapters were originally published in English; the others, formerly in Italian, French and German, have been translated into English for this edition. There are ten essays, each written by a different scholar, together with an introduction...
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Al-Masaq, Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2005 The Byzantines GUGLIELMO CAVALLO (Ed.), 1997 Chicago: University of Chicago Press 293 pp. (Paperback) ISBN 0-226-09792-7 This book is a collection of essays originally published in 1992 as L’Uomo bizantino. Three chapters were originally published in English; the others, formerly in Italian, French and German, have been translated into English for this edition. There are ten essays, each written by a different scholar, together with an introduction from the editor. The aim, set forth in the introduction, is to seek out the characteristics that distinguish the Byzantines from earlier, and presumably, their contemporary medieval, civilisations. In this, the book adopts a novel, and welcome, approach to understanding the Byzantine world. Few modern texts have sought to examine closely the people themselves. The reasons for this are not hard to discern. They relate to the paucity of evidence of ordinary life and the thousand-year time-line of the empire itself. Those are issues a book such as this must continually address, both to avoid making unsupportable generalisations on the one hand, and drawing banal conclusions on the other. The first chapters, on the poor, by Evelyne Patlagen, and on the peasantry by Alexander Kazhdan,

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