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The attention paid in the De Cerimoniis to foreign affairs in minimal, and to some extent this can be explained by the existence of...

The central theme in this document is taxis. Taxis, or correct order, within Byzantine society produced the harmonious hierarchy of institutions that consituted the...

These latter added their own quota of evil as fuel to the general conflagration fired by their ruler, and the result was nothing but...

When the emperor saw this beautiful sight (he was particularly reverent in his veneration for this ikon) he immediately took heart, and holding it...

Here were those same men, who had brought a continent to terms, who in their preparations for war and in their military dispositions had...