%0 Journal Article
%T Georgios Sphrantzes or how to become an archon in Byzantium in the XV century
%A Nikoli£¿ Maja
%J Zbornik Radova Vizantolo£¿kog Instituta
%D 2010
%I Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
%R 10.2298/zrvi1047277n
%X The historical work by Georgios Sphrantzes, his Memoirs, illustrates, through information on his life and career, the way in which a person could enter the higher social circles in XV century Byzantium. Usually, these persons were referred to in sources as "archons" and some of them as the emperor¡¯s "oikeioi", which involved a specific kind of personal and close relationship with the ruler and, in this case, a dynasty. Furthermore, "Sphrantzes" work provides data on some late Byzantine phenomena, for instance, not only the imperial "oikos", but those of the emperor¡¯s brothers as well, and indicates the existence of the same hierarchy in the "ospitia" of the despotai.
%K Sphrantzes
%K archon
%K oikeios
%K oikos
%K ospition
%K aristocrat
%K ambassador
%K kephale
%U http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0584-9888/2010/0584-98881047277N.pdf