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CLOSEState Finances and the Status of Individuals, 11th-14th C.
Kostis Smyrlis
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Kostis SmyrlisSenior Researcher
The Byzantine state’s fiscal policies were arguably the most significant factor in defining the status of individuals. It is changes in this domain that created in the 11th-12th c. the vast subordinate class of the peasants. At the same time, the old ruling elite of the great landowners was remolded into the class of the lords, whose position and wealth depended much more than before on the emperor.
- K. Smyrlis, “Property and Sovereignty in Byzantium in the Era of the Pronoia, Twelfth-Fourteenth Century”, in: Çiftliks in the Balkans and Western Anatolia. Halcyon Days in Crete X (12-14 January 2018), eds. A. Anastasopoulos et al. (Crete University Press: forthcoming).
- K. Smyrlis, “The Demosia, the Emperor and the Common Good: Byzantine Ideas Regarding Taxation and Public Wealth, Eleventh-Twelfth Century”, in: Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World, ed. Y. Stouraitis (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Byzantine Studies, 2022), 62-99.
- K. Smyrlis, “The Fiscal Revolution of Alexios I Komnenos: Timing, Scope and Motives”, in: Autour du Premier humanisme byzantin et des Cinq études sur le XIe siècle, quarante ans après Paul Lemerle, eds. B. Flusin, J.-C. Cheynet, Travaux et Mémoires 21.2 (Paris, 2017), 593-610.
- K. Smyrlis, “Wooing the Petty Elite: Privilege and Imperial Authority in Byzantium, Thirteenth–mid Fourteenth Century”, in: Le saint, le moine et le paysan. Mélanges d’histoire byzantine offerts à Michel Kaplan, eds. O. Delouis, S. Métivier, P. Pagès, Byzantina Sorbonensia 29 (Paris, 2016), 657-681.
- Taxation and Sovereignty: Explorations in Fiscal History from Antiquity to Modernity, New York University, Villa La Pietra, Florence, 15-16 May 2014, organized by K. Smyrlis, Y. Kotsonis and A. Monson.
Research coordinator
Kostis SmyrlisSenior Researcher