The contrast between the Latin West and the ‘Byzantine’ Empire is great in the 10th century. The differences between the fragmented West and the conquering Empire of the Romans are even greater. The article presents what has been well studied over the last three decades, even if the official sources offer a distorting mirror. Military expansion and the consolidation of imperial ideology in the post-Iconoclast period seem to be well known, while the debates surrounding “Byzantine feudalism”, the end of small peasant farming or the fiscal challenge are more or less extinct and have led to more nuanced analyses in the last decades. In recent years, periods before and after the 10th century have been intensely studied, rather than the 10th century. Several points are highlighted here: studies about finance and warfare, and the link between the State and the aristocracy, and the Western margins of Sicily and Italy.
University of Nantes, France - ORCID: 0000-0003-3028-9178
Titolo del capitolo
L’insaisissable Xe siècle byzantin
Autori
Annick Peters Custot
Lingua
Francese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1094-2.09
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Repenser le Xe siècle. États des lieux et perspectives / Ripensare il X secolo. Bilanci e prospettive
Curatori
Gianmarco De Angelis, Tiziana Lazzari
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
490
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1094-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-1093-5
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-1094-2
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-1096-6
Collana
Reti Medievali E-Book
ISSN della collana
2704-6362
e-ISSN della collana
2704-6079