Contents: Preface Introduction, JoAlle Beaucamp Part I Women in Byzantine Law and Practice: Sex, consent and coercion in Byzantium Marriage prohibitions, marriage strategies and the dowry in 13th-century Byzantium The evolution of the status of women in marriage and family law Women in the marketplace of Constantinople, (10tha 14th centuries) Family structure and the transmission of property. Part II Law, Politics and Society: Law, justice and the Byzantine historians: 9tha 12th centuries Peasant rebellion: notes on its vocabulary and typology The Emperor's word: chrysobulls, oaths and synallagmatic relations in Byzantium (11tha 12th centuries) Index.

Résumé : Byzance hérita de Rome un système monétaire plurimétallique sophistiqué qu’elle parvint à maintenir pendant près d’un millénaire en l’adaptant à un contexte changeant et difficile. Sa hiérarchisation contrastait avec la relative simplicité des systèmes en vigueur chez ses voisins occidentaux. Plusieurs innovations lui sont attribuables : l’introduction des marques de valeur sur la monnaie de bronze qui dura de 498 au début du viii e siècle, la datation annuelle systématique du bronze de 537 au début du viii e siècle, et une maitrise inégalée dans la purification des métaux ainsi que dans la conduite des différents procédés de dévaluation. Au cours du xi e siècle, Byzance mit en œuvre la production de monnaies bombées dites « scyphates » typiques ensuite de la période tardive.

This chapter addresses how Byzantine gold coinage continued to act as one of the 'dollars of the Middle Ages' from the eleventh to the mid-thirteenth century, and why and how it collapsed in the mid-fourteenth century. The process of creating a unified currency for the Roman Empire throughout its expanding territory proved to be long, taking several centuries. The Roman model has left such an imprint on European civilization and played such a part in our education that one tends to imagine empires as most likely having centralized administration and, necessarily, a unique currency. In the Libra dei Conti, the ledger kept in Constantinople by the Venetian merchant Giacomo Badoer from 1436 to 1439, the hyperpyron survives as a money of account. Constantine's reign marks the start of 'Byzantine' history — a modern concept derived from the ancient name of the city on the Bosporus, which he chose to renovate and recreate as Constantinopolis in 324 and inaugurate in 330.

This collection – probably a hoard – of 93 Byzantine copper coins (1204-1341) together with a grosh of Ivan Alexander and an asper of the Golden Horde, was offered on the market by CNG in 1993. Dumbarton Oaks acquired 15 and the BnF 18 specimens. The detailed inventory, originally made by Peter Lampinen, is updated here. The “ CNG hoard” is thus added to the rare mid-fourteenth-century deposits known to now (Prilep, Longuet, Serres, Vidin, Pella). It differs from them by the mix of issues from the two Byzantine mints : Constantinople and Thessalonica.