Family Structure and the Transmission of Property

Laiou, Angeliki E.

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“…As adults, as people concerned with and for children, it is our duty not leave something between us that remains unresolved. (Laiou, 2011). 5.…”

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Caught in the Middle: Arendt, Childhood and Responsibility

Conroy¹

2019

Journal of Philosophy of Education

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This essay critiques the infection of the curriculum with the concerns of the adult political community, treating successive generations of children as if they were responsible for changing the world and that education was the vehicle. Such impulses are, in part, the result of a failure to consider childhood as a particular, liminal, space rather than a refraction of the public spaces of the agora. The drive to see education as a vehicle and schools as the site of political change is not confined to the ideological obsessions of Right or Left; both may be considered culpable. Here I illustrate the normative problem through the particulars of a number of socio‐political challenges faced by ‘the World’, and in each case show why it is inappropriate to treat the school and education as the solution. Rather than teaching children how to solve the challenges of the agora, I suggest that what we in actuality do, is teach them the art and artifice of deferral and procrastination because we have failed to assume responsibility for the world. Drawing on Arendt's insights on natality, I suggest that schools should be spaces of ‘qualified’ shelter and that students should not be exposed to the harshness of political choice, nor should teachers merely act as a surrogate for political interests irrespective of their provenance or driving imperative.

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“…As adults, as people concerned with and for children, it is our duty not leave something between us that remains unresolved. (Laiou, 2011). 5.…”

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Caught in the Middle: Arendt, Childhood and Responsibility

Conroy¹

2019

Journal of Philosophy of Education

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“…77 In Byzantium, the phenomenon is identical. 78 Clearly, there are many gaps in our knowledge of the Early Middle Ages that we tend to fill with examples that already extend into the second millennium. Nevertheless, in these few sources still available, the principles and patterns present in Late Antique Law are always evident.…”

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Parents, Children, and Law

Vial-Dumas

2014

Journal of Family History

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This research covers the changes in the familial structures that occurred during the first millennium. In particular, it focuses on the institution of patria potestas and on emancipation. By looking at the transformation of juridical institutions, this article seeks to show the long-term evolution of the relation between adulthood, marriage, and emancipation in the families of late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. This research analyzes Roman law and the law of the Christian Mediterranean during this period, particularly in the Iberian and Italian Peninsulas as well as in the Byzantine Empire.

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“…The cognatic system of inheritance functioning in Byzantium led to situations in which the first-born daughters of the emperors could aspire to take power in favour of their husbands 56 . Similar circumstances can be observed already in the 11 th century when after the extinction of the male descendants of Basil the Macedonian, the daughters of Konstantinos VIII became heirs of imperial power which they only transmitted to their husbands as part of their marriage.…”

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The Family Strategy for Purple – Comparing the Methods of Andronikos I and Alexios I Komnenos of Constructing Imperial Power

Lachowicz¹

2019

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In this paper I would like to concentrate on strategies and methods that were guiding Alexios I and Andronikos I of the Komnenos dynasty during the process of gaining and consolidating their power in the Byzantine Empire. Between these two emperors, who belonged to the same family, there exist many analogies in the way of carrying out a coup and constructing the authority based on a group of faithful aristocrats. It is crucial to highlight the active family politics which characterized both the emperors, as it was the main strategy aimed at ensuring the durability of the freshly acquired power. Between Andronikos’ and his grandfather’s coups passed almost exactly one hundred years. The completely different social and political situation of the Byzantine Empire in the late 12th century forced Andronikos to take a different approach. The most striking change was in the way of eliminating potential threats from the circles of Constantinopolitan aristocracy, especially when it comes to his relatives. Such a comparative analysis leads to some important observations concerning the social changes in the late 11th and 12th centuries, as well as mechanisms of seniority and precedence of power in the Komnenos family.

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Family Structure and the Transmission of Property

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Caught in the Middle: Arendt, Childhood and Responsibility

Caught in the Middle: Arendt, Childhood and Responsibility

Parents, Children, and Law

The Family Strategy for Purple – Comparing the Methods of Andronikos I and Alexios I Komnenos of Constructing Imperial Power

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