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• Introduction--
• 1. The non-technical senses of the word pronoia--
• 2. Pronoia during the twelfth century--
• 3. Choniates' 'gifts of Paroikoi'--
• 4. Origins--
• 5. Pronoia during the Period of Exile (1204-1261)--
• 6. Pronoia during the era of Michael VIII Palaiologos--
• 7. Terminology, late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries--
• 8. The nature of pronoia, late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries: a handbook in three parts--
• 9. Pronoia during the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries--
• 10. Pronoia and timar-- Conclusion-- Appendices.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

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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• Introduction--
• 1. The non-technical senses of the word pronoia--
• 2. Pronoia during the twelfth century--
• 3. Choniates' 'gifts of Paroikoi'--
• 4. Origins--
• 5. Pronoia during the Period of Exile (1204-1261)--
• 6. Pronoia during the era of Michael VIII Palaiologos--
• 7. Terminology, late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries--
• 8. The nature of pronoia, late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries: a handbook in three parts--
• 9. Pronoia during the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries--
• 10. Pronoia and timar-- Conclusion-- Appendices.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

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.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Independent states such as Athens have long been viewed as the most advanced stage of state formation in ancient Greece. By contrast, this book argues that for some Greeks, the ethnos, regionally based ethnic group, and the koinon or regional confederation, were equally valid units of social political life and that these ethnic identities were astonishingly durable. The author sets his study in Phokis and explores how ecological conditions, land use, and external factors such as invasion contributed to the formation of a Phokian territory. Then, drawing on numerous interdisciplinary sources, he traces the history of the region from the Archaic age down to the Roman period. McInerney shows how shared myths, hero cults and military alliances created an ethnic identity that held the region together over centuries despite repeated invasions. He concludes that the Phokian koinon survived because it was founded ultimately on the tenacity of the smaller communities of Greece.
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