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Alex M. Feldman is the chair of the department of languages and literature at CIS-Endicott International University of Madrid. He received a BA from Roger Williams University of Rhode Island and received an MRes and PhD from the University of Birmingham. He has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of London’s Warburg Institute and has taught at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey, the State University of New York, Rockland and the University of Birmingham.
This is an impressive and engaging book: erudite, personal and passionate as it is dense and demanding. Rich rewards await readers as they are asked to follow a path that draws on a multitude of texts from Antiquity to the last couple of years to weave a gripping narrative of how medieval political, economic and theological systems emerged and grew in the Byzantine world writ large. This is a book about political economy and inequality that clearly demonstrates how the latter’s multiple forms can all be traced back to the same principles. Alex Mesibov Feldman guides us confidently through his meticulously collected material to explore the past but without ever losing sight of the present. He proudly follows in the footsteps of writers such as Marcel Mauss and David Graeber whose brilliant scholarship was also ultimately about justice. Dionysios Stathakopoulos / Assistant Professor in Byzantine History, University of Cyprus
