Social Groups, Structures, Networks – Investigations into the Synthesis of the Middle-Byzantine Society (7th-11th c.)

该项目的目的是-相当普遍-对拜占庭帝国中期（公元7 - 11世纪）社会的社会历史和历史文化分析。重点是选定的主题优先事项，每个优先事项都涉及某些社会群体、其结构和网络。调查主要基于在“中拜占庭帝国人学”（PMBZ）框架内编制的综合人学数据材料，但也包括最近的人学研究。该项目侧重于四个选定的主题优先事项：妇女和太监（性别研究），B。Clerics and Laypersons，C.种族和部落群体，和D。青年和老年。分析的核心-特别是-包括对某些社会群体及其结构的更密切的调查和解释，即。e.他们的内部等级和社会定位，以及网络，即。e.它们的内部连接和相互作用，它们彼此之间的联系以及与总体人口的联系。在此过程中，应采用现代社会科学方法。对于所选主题优先顺序的不同社会群体，现代社会科学的各种理论和模型可以应用于历史研究。针对女性和宦官，尤其是精英社会学的问题以及社会网络分析有着明显的相关性。我们必须问，这些社会群体是各自形成了自己的精英，还是形成了共同的精英，还是仅仅是整个社会精英的一部分，以及这些群体是否发展了自己的社交网络。鉴于神职人员和外行社会网络分析的问题获得更加重要。应显示这些社会群体内部的社会相互联系和等级划分，并显示其各自网络之间的共性和差异。还应该问，这两种网络之间存在哪些交织、转换和融合的可能性。关于族裔和部落群体，i. e.由于某些地区的土著人民在来源上仍然是有形的，因此必须提出身份理论的问题。还必须问，这些群体的民族文化身份具有什么意义，以及它如何与假定的上级罗马-拜占庭或基督教身份相对应。青年和老年的主题情结需要系统地纳入考古研究及其结果，特别是坟墓考古和骨骼发现的年龄确定，以便对拜占庭人或某些社会群体的预期寿命得出更准确和更有根据的结论。

The aim of the project is - quite generally - a socio-historical and historico-cultural analysis of the society of the Byzantine Empire of the middle period (7th–11th c.) focused on selected thematic priorities which each refer to certain social groups, their structures and networks. The investigation is primarily based on the comprehensive prosopographical data material compiled in the framework of the "Prosopography of the Middle-Byzantine Empire" (PMBZ) but also includes recent prosopographical research. The project concentrates on four selected thematic priorities: A. Women and Eunuchs (Gender Studies), B. Clerics and Laypersons, C. Ethnic and Tribal Groups, and D. Youth and Old Age. The core of the analysis - in particular - consists of a closer investigation and interpretation of certain social groups and their structures, i. e. their internal hierarchization as well as their social localization, and networks, i. e. their internal conjunctions and interactions, their connections with each other and with regard to the overall population. In so doing modern socio-scientific methods shall be applied. Regarding the different social groups of the selected thematic priorities various theories and models of the modern social sciences can be applied in historical research. With a view to women and eunuchs particularly questions of the sociology of the elites as well as social network analysis have an obvious relevance. It must be asked whether these social groups formed each an elite of their own or a common elite or whether they were merely part of an elite of the society as a whole, and whether these groups developed their own social networks. With a view to clerics and laypersons questions of social network analysis gain even more importance. The social interconnections and hierarchizations within these social groups shall be displayed and the commonalities and differences between their respective networks shall be shown. It should also be asked which possibilities of interweaving, transformation and integration existed between the two kinds of networks. With regard to ethnic and tribal groups, i. e. the indigenous peoples of certain regions still tangible in the sources, questions of identity theory have to be asked. It must also be asked, which significance the ethnic-cultural identity of these groups had and how it corresponded to an assumed superior Roman-Byzantine or Christian identity. The thematic complex of youth and old age requires a systematic inclusion of the archaeological research and its results, especially of tomb archaeology and age determination of skeletal finds, in order to arrive at more precise and better-founded conclusions about the life expectancy of the Byzantines or of certain social groups.