Pronoia
The pronoia (pl. pronoiai; Greek: πρόνοια, meaning "care", "forethought" or "providence," from πρό 'before' and νόος 'mind') was a system of granting dedicated streams of state income to individuals and institutions in the late Byzantine Empire. Beginning in the 11th century and continuing until the empire's fall in the 15th century, the system differed in significant ways from European feudalism of the same period. The institution A pronoia was a grant that temporarily transferred imperial fiscal rights to an individual or institution. These rights were most commonly taxes or incomes from cultivated lands, but they could also be other income streams such...
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