Information, ceremony and power in Byzantine fiscal registers
Varieties of function in the Cadaster of Thebes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21085287 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonora Neville (0009-0009-2694-6527, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Pages | 20-43 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-0131 • E-ISSN: 1749-625X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1179/byz.2001.25.1.20 |
| OpenAlex | W2046109469 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This paper examines the Cadaster of Thebes, an eleventh-century Byzantine fiscal document, to see what light it sheds on both the intention and ability of the Byzantine bureaucracy to maintain a formal taxation system based on land registration. While the document attests to efforts at maintaining such a system, the quality of record keeping in the Cadaster of Thebes is insufficient for the document to play the role formally accorded to it within that system. It is suggested that Byzantine cadasters aided taxation by creating the impression of a pervasive imperial government and ceremonially connecting every household to the emperor through his interceding administrators
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |