Constantine was a scholar-emperor, who sought to foster learning and education in the Eastern Roman Empire. The language Constantine uses is rather straightforward High Medieval Greeksomewhat more elaborate than that of the Canonic Gospelsand easily comprehensible to an educated modern Greek. It is probably the extant written text that comes closest to the vernacular employed by the Imperial Palace bureaucracy in 10th century Constantinople. Moravcsik, Gyulaed.Ĭhapters 43-46 are about contemporary policy in the north-east Armenia and Georgia. Access to the complete content on Oxford Reference requires a subscription or purchase.Ĭhapters 1-8, 10-12 explain imperial policy toward the Pechenegs and Turks. Jenkins appeared in Budapest in The historical and antiquarian treatise, which the Emperor had compiled during the s, is contained in the chapters 12- History of the Byzantine State. In the preamble, the emperor makes a point that he has avoided convoluted expressions and ” lofty Atticisms ” on purpose, so as to make everything ” plain as the beaten track of common, everyday speech ” for tuematibus son and those high officials with whom he might later choose to share the work.
The guides to the incorporation and taxation of new imperial provinces, and to some parts of civil and naval administration, are in chapters 49- 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.ĭIE STEINKLOPFER FERDINAND VON SAAR PDF Constantinus Porphyrogenitus de thematibus et de administrando imperio … International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Copenhagen Retrieved from ” https: To this combination were added Constantine’s own political instructions to his son Romanus.Ĭonstantine himself had not given the work a name, preferring instead to start the text with the standard formal salutation: 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 The partial manuscript M is in Modena. De thematibusīandur which is collated copy of the first edition and manuscript P. Chapter 13 is a general directive on foreign policy coming from the Emperor. (Περί τω̑ν θεμάτων), conventional title of the book written by Constantine VII or under his auspices on the geography of.ĭon’t have an account? The Greek text in its entirety was published seven times. Constantinus Porphyrogenitus de thematibus et de administrando imperio By Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (Emperor of the East).
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