- The
pronoia (plural
pronoiai; Gr****: πρόνοια,
meaning "care", "forethought" or "providence," from πρό, "before," and νόος, "mind") was a
system of granting...
-
Pronoia may
refer to:
Pronoia (plural
pronoiai, Gr**** for "provisions"), a
system of land
grants in the
Byzantine Empire Pronoia (psychology), the phenomenon...
- Emperor's
attempts to
bolster the empire's
defences by
special concessions to
pronoiai (notables) in the
frontier zone backfired, as the
latter increased their...
- who by 1220
completed the
recovery of the
entire region, and ****igned
pronoiai to
aristocratic Gr**** families. The
Vlachs (Aromanians) of
Thessaly (originally...
-
Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII
Palaiologos allowed soldiers to
transfer their pronoiai to
their unborn children. The
unborn royals were
increasingly granted the...
- the
Sipahis (feudal
landholders similar to
western knights and
Byzantine pronoiai) and
Qapukulu (door slaves,
taken from
youth like
Janissaries and trained...
- the 12th
century onwards, were the tax
revenues from some
estates called pronoiai (πρόνοιαι). As in antiquity, the
basic food of the
soldier remained the...
- not
operate under the old
theme system of the
middle Byzantine period.
Pronoiai developed into
essentially a
license to tax the
citizens who
lived within...
- he was also
given the
islands of
Rhodes and ****s as
personal domains (
pronoiai). In July 1261,
Constantinople was
recovered and the
Byzantine Empire restored...
