The Changing Balance of Rural Power ad 200–400

The major conclusion of the analysis presented in this and the following chapter will be that in the eastern provinces the advent of the late empire revolutionized provincial landholding, signalling the rapid decline of the élites which had dominated urban and agrarian life for most of the earlier period, and the gradual emergence, especially in the course of the fith century, of a new group of landowners whose social and professional roots were quite different from those of the municipal geouchoi.

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