Tematski vojnici u vizantijskom društvu - prilog novom procenjivanju problema
Thematic Stratiotai in Byzantine Society - a Contribution to a New Assessment of the Subject

Summary/Abstract: Investigations of thematic organization never yielded generally accepted results. The reasons behind this are closely tied to limitations regarding source material. On the one hand, there are certain chronological or thematic units poorly represented in the sources. On the other, there are cases well documented by the sources which can, however, overlook data logically expected to be mentioned. Still, byzantine sources, including legal texts with their often anachronous clauses, have an understanding of thematic priorities which differs from our own, defined by our contemporary standards. Scholars investigating the institution of stratiotes constantly face such difficulties. An undesired but still rather common result of such problems accounts for the fact that researchers base their opinions on superficial lexics and terminology of Byzantine sources and disregard the connections between the main lines of development of the so-called middle Byzantine period (VII–XI centuries) and the changes in thematic organization...

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