Efi Ragia's guest appearances

Efi Ragia

Byzantium & Friends

Sean Anthony

Amy Kaufman

Leonora Neville

Mary Talbot

Judith Herrin

Stephen Morris

Steven Smith

Dimitris Krallis

Bissera Pentcheva

Christian Raffensperger

Christina Maranci

Elena Boeck

Tina Sessa

George Demacopoulos

Dave Jenkins

OwlTail

A conversation with Efi Ragia (Hellenic Open University) on coming to grips with social class in Byzantium, a society without a fixed social hierarchy, at least not fixed in terms of hereditary groups. Claims to high (or low) social standing were often rhetorical and fluid. Who were "the powerful"? By what criteria could they be recognized, and how might others aspire to that position? The conversation is based on her article ‘Social Group Profiles in Byzantium: Some Considerations on Byzantine Perceptions about Social Class Distinctions,’ Byzantina Symmeikta 26 (2016) 309-372.

<p>A conversation with Efi Ragia (Hellenic Open University) on coming to grips with social class in Byzantium, a society without a fixed social hierarchy, at least not fixed in terms of hereditary groups. Claims to high (or low) social standing were often rhetorical and fluid. Who were "the powerful"? By what criteria could they be recognized, and how might others aspire to that position? The conversation is based on her article ‘Social Group Profiles in Byzantium: Some Considerations on Byzantine Perceptions about Social Class Distinctions,’ <em>Byzantina Symmeikta </em>26 (2016) 309-372.</p>

24. Social class in Byzantium, with Efi Ragia