Alan R Harvey
Biographic Data
| ID | 5372682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan R Harvey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan R |
| FAMILY NAME | Harvey |
| SIGNATURE | HARVEY A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Acoustic Processing and the Origin of Human Vocal Communication
Humans have inherited from their remotest mammalian ancestors an integration of the sensory and motor systems that permits the exchange of signals and information, led by an instinctive response to harmonicity. The transition, from capacity for animal communication involving calls, facial expression and gestures, to modern human culture that embraces language, music, and dance, has resulted from anatomical adaptations such as upright posture, a d…
The Village
Michael Angold, Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni 1081-1261. Cambridge
The middle Byzantine economy
In recent years there have been significant advances in our understanding of the Byzantine rural economy. While work on such problems as the legal status of the peasantry, the fiscal procedures by which the state extracted revenues from the peasantry and the nature of the fiscal concessions which the state made to landowners remains central to our understanding of the Byzantine social structure, greater attention has been paid recently to the his…
The Economic Expansion of the Byzantine Empire, 900-1200
Peasant Categories in the Tenth and eleventh centuries
The need for the state to protect its fiscal revenues is presented in the tenth-century legislation as a significant factor underlying the efforts made by the imperial administration to check the growing power of its provincial magnates and to make it more difficult for them to extend their properties at the expense of weaker peasants. In practice the most effective way for the state to maintain its revenues was to ensure through the regular acti…
Economic Expansion in Central Greece in the Eleventh Century
A familiar orthodoxy in Byzantine history is that the empire’s economy began to stagnate in the eleventh century. It was a turning-point marked by the development of large estates at the expense of independent peasants and the onset of demographic decline. The demographic trend has been much discussed and generally pessimistic conclusions have been reached. Recently, Lemerle has asserted that the labour force was less plentiful than land
Economic Expansion in Central Greece in the Eleventh Century
A familiar orthodoxy in Byzantine history is that the empire’s economy began to stagnate in the eleventh century. It was a turning-point marked by the development of large estates at the expense of independent peasants and the onset of demographic decline. The demographic trend has been much discussed and generally pessimistic conclusions have been reached. Recently, Lemerle has asserted that the labour force was less plentiful than land
Economic Expansion in Central Greece in the Eleventh Century
A familiar orthodoxy in Byzantine history is that the empire’s economy began to stagnate in the eleventh century. It was a turning-point marked by the development of large estates at the expense of independent peasants and the onset of demographic decline. The demographic trend has been much discussed and generally pessimistic conclusions have been reached. Recently, Lemerle has asserted that the labour force was less plentiful than land
Peasant Categories in the Tenth and eleventh centuries
The need for the state to protect its fiscal revenues is presented in the tenth-century legislation as a significant factor underlying the efforts made by the imperial administration to check the growing power of its provincial magnates and to make it more difficult for them to extend their properties at the expense of weaker peasants. In practice the most effective way for the state to maintain its revenues was to ensure through the regular acti…
The Economic Expansion of the Byzantine Empire, 900-1200
The middle Byzantine economy
In recent years there have been significant advances in our understanding of the Byzantine rural economy. While work on such problems as the legal status of the peasantry, the fiscal procedures by which the state extracted revenues from the peasantry and the nature of the fiscal concessions which the state made to landowners remains central to our understanding of the Byzantine social structure, greater attention has been paid recently to the his…
Michael Angold, Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni 1081-1261. Cambridge
The Village
Acoustic Processing and the Origin of Human Vocal Communication
Humans have inherited from their remotest mammalian ancestors an integration of the sensory and motor systems that permits the exchange of signals and information, led by an instinctive response to harmonicity. The transition, from capacity for animal communication involving calls, facial expression and gestures, to modern human culture that embraces language, music, and dance, has resulted from anatomical adaptations such as upright posture, a d…
Byzantine Studies and History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Economics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Byzantine architecture (2 works) · Eleventh (2 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Political science (2 works)