Onikinci asır Bizans'ta büyük toprak sahipliği ve Komnenos Ailesi

Eleventh century of the Byzantine Empire seems to have witnessed a political arena that was full of hustle and bustle and that had colourful and diverse players interacting for supremacy. It might be suggested that many eleventh-century emperors supported in one way or another expansion of influence of the powerful magnate families (military magnates from mainly Anatolia) in order to strike a balance against potential massive popular uprising. And as a result, in the twelfth century, a representative of the military aristocracy, Komnenos family, with the help of other allied families, managed to usurp the throne and ushered a period of stability, prosperity and self-confidence that lasted a century. This essay sets forth, in a nutshell, a thriving and procreative economic process that was manifest from the tenth century onwards and that culminated in the growing of great estates, and its social consequences that in effect made possible of the advent of the Komnenian system and also enabled the imperial family to consolidate and enforce its rule in the twelfth century. Keywords: Twelfth Century Byzantium, Komnenian Family, Byzantine Economy, Agricultural Production, Great Estates, Village Community and Byzantine Peasants, Paroikoi, Monasteries, Byzantine Aristocracy, Military Lands and Pronoia