Free Content Private property and state finances. The emperor's right to donate his subjects' land in the Comnenian period

Author: Smyrlis, Kostis

Source: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Volume 33, Number 2, September 2009 , pp. 115-132(18)

Publisher: Maney Publishing

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Abstract:

The question of the respect of private property in Byzantium is examined through the analysis of a series of confiscations of real estate situated in Constantinople, which were carried out from 1082 to 1202 in favour of the Italian republics of Venice, Pisa and Genoa. It is argued that these confiscations were not arbitrary but justified by the circumstances. Finally, these expropriations are set against the developments in the system by which the state remunerated its servants in the period after the eleventh century, increasingly by land grants.

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174962509X417627

Affiliations: New York University

Publication date: 2009-09-01

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