

More on this Topic View overview page for this topic. These later chapters and chapter 53 were designed to give practical instructions to the emperor Romanus II, and are probably added during the year -52, in order to mark Romanus’ fourteenth birthday If you have purchased a print title that contains an access token, please see the token for information about how to register your code. It is a domestic and foreign policy manual for the use of Constantine’s son and successor, the Emperor Romanos II.

De Thematibus – Oxford Referenceĭe Administrando Imperio 2nd revised ed. The only difficulty is the regular use of technical terms which, being in standard use at the time, may present prima facie hardships to a modern reader.

Medicine and health Music Names studies Performing arts Philosophy.įrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved from ” https: The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single entry from a reference work in OR for personal use for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice. Vari planned a new critical edition of this work and J. Chapters 1-8, 10-12 explain imperial policy toward ghematibus Pechenegs and Turks.ĭon’t have an account? Constantinus Porphyrogenitus de thematibus et de administrando imperio …īandur thematibuw is collated copy of the first edition and manuscript P. The guides to the incorporation and taxation of new imperial provinces, and to some parts of civil and naval administration, are in chapters 49- The partial manuscript M is in Modena. De conversione Croatorum et Serborum: Sign in to annotate. It is probably the extant written text that comes closest to the vernacular employed by the Imperial Palace bureaucracy in 10th century Themaibus. (Περί τω̑ν θεμάτων), conventional title of the book written by Constantine VII or under his auspices on the geography of.īury later proposed to include this work in his collection of Byzantine Texts. Constantinus Porphyrogenitus de thematibus et de administrando imperio By Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (Emperor of the East). Your $5 becomes $15! Dear Internet Archive Supporter.

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