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- Title
Private property and state finances. The emperor's right to donate his subjects' land in the Comnenian period.
- Authors
Smyrlis, Kostis
- Abstract
The question of the respect of private property in Byzantium is examined through the analysis of a series of confiscations of real estate situated in Constantinople, which were carried out from 1082 to 1202 in favour of the Italian republics of Venice, Pisa and Genoa. It is argued that these confiscations were not arbitrary but justified by the circumstances. Finally, these expropriations are set against the developments in the system by which the state remunerated its servants in the period after the eleventh century, increasingly by land grants.
- Subjects
ISTANBUL (Turkey); TURKEY; PROPERTY (Byzantine law); CONFISCATIONS; PROPERTY rights; BYZANTINE law; LAND tenure; EMINENT domain; COMNENI dynasty, Byzantine Empire, 1081-1185; REIGN of Angeli, Byzantine Empire, 1185-1204; BYZANTINE Empire, 1081-1453; BYZANTINE Empire -- Politics &; government; BYZANTINE Empire; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, 2009, Vol 33, Issue 2, p115
- ISSN
0307-0131
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1179/174962509X417627