Life and Society in Byzantine Cappadocia
Authors: Cooper, Eric., Decker, Michael
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This is the first in-depth historical study of Byzantine Cappadocia. The authors draw on extensive textual and archaeological materials to examine the nature and place of Cappadocia in the Byzantine Empire from the fourth through eleventh centuries.
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MICHAEL DECKER Maroulis Professor of Byzantine History and Orthodox Religion at the University of South Florida, USA. He earned his DPhil from Oxford University and was Andrew Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow at Rice University in Houston. He has written extensively on Byzantine Syria and agrarian history of the Levant.
J. ERIC COOPER earned his DPhil from Oxford University, UK. Since then, he has worked for several leading Wall Street firms before becoming the CEO of the consultancy firm Akrites, LLC. He has published in several fields and maintains an active interest in Byzantine history and archaeology.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-7
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‘A Vast and Admirable Land’
Pages 11-48
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The Increase of the Earth
Pages 49-75
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Land of Beautiful Horses
Pages 76-103
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If One, Why So Many?
Pages 107-138
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Life and Society in Byzantine Cappadocia
- Authors
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- Eric. Cooper
- Michael Decker
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-02964-5
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137029645
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-36106-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-34828-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 339
- Topics