Overview
- Explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries
- Identifies three main sources of banditry: shepherds, soldiers and peasants
- Examines bandits themselves, their origins, their reasons for taking up brigandage, and the steps taken by the central authorities to control their activity
Part of the book series: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture (NABHC)
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Book Title: Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800-1500
Authors: Panos Sophoulis
Series Title: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55905-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55904-5Published: 29 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55907-6Published: 29 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55905-2Published: 28 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2730-9363
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9371
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 188
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Medieval Europe, Cultural History, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Social History, Crime and Society