The Byzantine Empire Outline

Want to read the rest of this paper? Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay and over 50,000 other term papers

Byzantine period the family became more rigid; women were confined to their houses and wore veils if they went out. However, Byzantine women ruled alongside their husbands between 1028 and 1056, and women did not take refuge in nunneries.

3. The Byzantine emperors intervened in the economy by setting prices, controlling provision of grain to the capital, and monopolizing trade on certain goods. As a result, Constantinople was well supplied, but the cities and rural areas of the rest of the empire lagged behind in terms of wealth and technology.

4. Gradually, Western Europeans began to view the Byzantine Empire as a crumbling power. For their part, Byzantines thought that westerners were uncouth barbarians.

C. Cultural Achievements

1. Legal scholars put together a collection of Roman laws and edicts under the title Body of Civil Law. This compilation became the basis of Western European civil law.

2. Byzantine architects developed the technique of making domed ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays. Write better papers. Get better grades. Already a member? Login

"Great Tradition," regional elites became more self-sufficient and local "small traditions" flourished.

2. The medieval diet in the north was based on beer, lard or butter, and bread. In the south, the staples were wheat, wine, and olive oil.

3. Self-sufficient farming estates called manors were the primary centers of agricultural production. Manors grew from the need for self-sufficiency and self-defense.

4. The lord of a manor had almost unlimited power over his agricultural workers -- the serfs. The conditions of agricultural workers varied, as the tradition of a free peasantry survived in some areas.

C. Early Medieval Society in the West

1. During the early medieval ...

Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library. Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports, and research papers in 2 minutes or less.

CITE THIS PAGE: