De Administrando Imperio

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By Constantine Porphyrogenitus

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De Administrando Imperio, compiled by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the tenth century, offers a comprehensive insight into the foreign relations and internal administration of the Byzantine Empire. As an invaluable historical document from the Middle Byzantine period, it provides an honest assessment of the empire's political landscape. This edition includes critical introductions, detailed indexes, an extensive glossary, and grammatical notes, making it an essential resource for understanding Byzantium and European history of the era.
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This book is suited for historians, scholars, and students with an interest in Byzantine history, medieval studies, and European political systems during the Middle Ages.

Offers a translation of the "De Administrando Imperio" written and compiled by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the tenth century. This title contains a variety of information on both foreign relations and internal administration and is one of the most important historical documents surviving from the Middle Byzantine period.

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This is a reprint of the second revised edition of the text and translation of the De Administrando Imperio written and compiled by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the tenth century.

It contains a wide variety of information on both foreign relations and internal administration and is one of the most important historical documents surviving from the Middle Byzantine period.

Its confidential character and generally honest appraisal of the empire's political situation enhance its value for students of Byzantium and Europe during this period.

The edition includes general and critical introductions, an index of proper names, and an extensive glossary, as well as grammatical notes and an index of sources and parallel passages.

Series: Dumbarton Oaks Texts

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780884023432

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 March 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection

Contributors:

Translated by Romilly J. H. Jenkins
Edited by Gyula Moravcsik

Audience: Adult education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 499g

Pages: 354

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Constantine Porphyrogenitus European History History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction Series: Dumbarton Oaks Texts

About the Author

Gyula Moravcsik was a distinguished Byzantinologist best known for his monumental work on the historical sources on Byzantine relations with the Turks, Byzantinoturcica. Romilly J. H. Jenkins was Professor of Byzantine History and Literature at Harvard University and was Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. He edited and translated the letters of patriarch Nicholas I.

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