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While several historians have recognized the problems which various outlaw groups caused in the Balkans during the Middle Ages, few have given much attention to the brigands themselves, their origins, their reasons for taking up banditry and the steps taken by central authorities to control brigandage. In the foregoing discussion I hope I have been able to elucidate some of the fundamental problems associated with banditry in its Balkan context, and thus to provide a point of reference for the social history of the region.
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As rightly pointed out by Anscombe 2006, 87, in his discussion of Balkan brigandage in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Hobsbawm 1981; Reuter 2006, 55.
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Sophoulis, P. (2020). Conclusion. In: Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800-1500. New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55905-2_8
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