Contents: Introduction. The Aristocracy in Byzantine Society: The Byzantine aristocracy, 8th-13th centuries; The Byzantine aristocracy in the 10th-12th centuries: comments on the book by A. Kazhdan and S. Ronchey; Aristocratic anthroponymy in Byzantium; Aristocracy and inheritance, 10th-12th centuries; Fortune et puissance des grandes familles (Xe-XIIe siècle); Dévaluation des dignités et dévaluation monétaire dans la seconde moitié du XIe siècle. The Aristocracy and the Byzantine Army: Official power and non-official power; Basil II and Asia Minor; Philadelphie, un quart de siècle de dissidence, 1182-1206; La politique militaire de Basile II Ã Alexis Comnène; Du stratège de thème au duc: chronologie de l'évolution au cours du XIe siècle; Les effectifs de l'armée byzantine (Xe-XIIe s.); Mantzikert: un désastre militaire?; La résistance aux Turcs en Asie Mineure entre Mantzikert et la Première Croisade. Addenda; Index.

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Jean-Claude Cheynet is Professor of Byzantine History at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), France, and Director of the Centre de recherche d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, at the Collège de France, France.

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