so here is the challenge with a POD after the ascenstion of COnstantine Porphrgynetos make it possible for the small landholders and soldier farmers of the byzantine empire not lose their land to the landed aristocracy.
If such a thing is able to happen how would it affect the Byzantine dynamics circa the 11th-13th century and can this prevention of a rise in a powerful landholding byzantine class ensure a survival of the byzantine state and continued surplus of funds for war and other expenses. Since the backbone of byzantium financially, militarily, and economically lay with the small landholders and soldiers for the most part.
If such a thing is able to happen how would it affect the Byzantine dynamics circa the 11th-13th century and can this prevention of a rise in a powerful landholding byzantine class ensure a survival of the byzantine state and continued surplus of funds for war and other expenses. Since the backbone of byzantium financially, militarily, and economically lay with the small landholders and soldiers for the most part.