1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990006890090403321

Autore

OBSERVATOIRE PERMANENT DE LA COOPERATION FRANCAISE

Titolo

La politique africaine au Parlement franȧis : journee-débat du 30 septembre 1997 / Observatoire permanent de lacooperation franȧise OPCF

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Karthala, c 1998

ISBN

2-86537-886-1

Descrizione fisica

185 p. ; 21 cm

Disciplina

320.96

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

XIV E 4099

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910427039603321

Autore

Sophoulis Panos

Titolo

Banditry in the medieval Balkans, 800-1500 / / Panos Sophoulis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-030-55905-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 188 p. 3 illus.)

Collana

New approaches to Byzantine history and culture

Disciplina

364.1552

Soggetti

Brigands and robbers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. The Reasons for the Rise of Balkan Banditry between the Ninth and the Fourteenth Centuries -- 3. The 'Sociology' of Balkan Banditry -- 4. The Bandit and his Community: 'Parasitical' Societies in the Medieval Balkans? -- 5. The State's Response to Banditry -- 6. Appendix: Inventory of References to Balkan Banditry in the Sources.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. While several scholars have recognized the problems which various outlaw groups caused in the region during the Middle Ages, few have given much attention to the bandits themselves, their origins, their reasons for taking up brigandage, and the steps taken by the central authorities to control their activity. Among other things, this book identifies three main sources of banditry: shepherds, soldiers and peasants. Far from being ʻlone wolvesʼ, these men operated within well-defined social networks. Poverty played a decisive role in driving them to a life of crime, but there is strong evidence to suggest that the growing economic prosperity in parts of the Balkans from the ninth century onwards may have also contributed to the rise of the phenomenon.