An outline of typology of social relations in the countries of Byzantine civilization in the VII-XIV Centuries by Nerijus Babinskas

“…The countries of Southeastern Europe adopted the political as well as the sociocultural structure of the Byzantine Empire: the state was centralized, the church was subordinated to the state, the aristocracy did not rely on private property but on state distribution or redistribution, etc. …”
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Aristocracias chané. « Casas » en el Chaco argentino y boliviano by Isabelle Combès, Diego Villar

“…Chané aristocracies. « Houses » in the Argentinian and Bolivian Chaco. …”
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Heraldry and entailment identity in pre-modern Portugal by Rita Nóvoa

“… Like the nobilities and aristocracies of pre-modern Europe, many Portuguese noble families used heraldry to build, consolidate, transmit, and perpetuate identity traits that, internally and externally, defined a sense of belonging to a group. …”
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