Social and Economic Life in Byzantium is the third selection of papers by the late Nicolas Oikonomides to be published in the Variorum Collected Studies Series; a fourth, Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium, will follow in 2005. The present volume is centred upon the period from the 9th to the 11th century, and a series of examinations into

Nicolas Oikonomides was formerly Professor in the Department of History, University of Athens, Greece; Elizabeth Zachariadou is Professor at the University of Crete, Greece