by Nathan Leidholm
Arc Humanities Press, 2019
eISBN: 978-1-64189-029-8 | Cloth: 978-1-64189-028-1
Library of Congress Classification HT653.B98L45 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 949.502

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
By the end of the twelfth century, the Byzantine <i>genos </I> was a politically effective social group based upon ties of consanguineous kinship, but, importantly, it was also a cultural construct, an idea that held very real power, yet defies easy categorization. This study explores the role and function of the Byzantine aristocratic family group, or <i>genos</i>, as a distinct social entity, particularly its political and cultural role, as it appears in a variety of sources in the tenth through twelfth centuries.