This new book by well-known Emeritus Professor of Medieval and Byzantine History, Alexios G. Savvides, consists of an in-depth analysis of the existing bibliography regarding the thorny issue of whether Byzantine feudalism existed, namely whether the later Byzantine society had developed social and economic institutions that resembled the feudal institutions of western medieval Europe. This is an argument that has been introduced in the bibliography by Russian historians A. Vasiliev and G. Ostrogorsky and which has been adopted by a number of modern historians who approached later Byzantine society within the lens of traditional European medieval narratives, with an emphasis on the distribution of land and societal-economic relations rather than the more classical political/military narrative. However, a significant number of historians dispute the existence of Byzantine feudalism or the appropriateness of a comparison between Byzantine and the western European feudalism.

Savvides provides a complete and thorough bibliographical guide to this...

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