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20: 364:). The guides to the incorporation and taxation of new imperial provinces, and to some parts of civil and naval administration, are in chapters 49–52. These later chapters (and chapter 53) were designed to give practical instructions to the emperor Romanus II, and are probably added during the year 951–52, in order to mark Romanus' fourteenth birthday (952). 588:" on purpose, so as to make everything "plain as the beaten track of common, everyday speech" for his son and those high officials with whom he might later choose to share the work. It is probably the extant written text that comes closest to the vernacular employed by the imperial palace bureaucracy in 10th-century Constantinople. 134:. From 920, Constantine VII become increasingly distant from the imperial authorities; until December 944, when the sons of Emperor Romanos I suddenly rebelled and cloistered their father. Constantine VII, with the help of his supporters, cloistered his brothers-in-law, and personally ruled by the 319:
The historical and antiquarian treatise, which the Emperor had compiled during the 940s, is contained in the chapters 12–40. This treatise contains traditional and legendary stories of how the territories surrounding the Empire came in the past to be occupied by the people living in them in the
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was written by emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, but he had at least one educated "Anonymous Collaborator". Constantine VII's direct appeals to his son Romanus II and Constantine's first-person commentaries are located both at the beginning of the treatise in the
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Constantine himself had not given the work a name, preferring instead to start the text with the standard formal salutation: "Constantine, in Christ the Eternal Sovereign, Emperor of the Romans, to own son Romanos, the Emperor crowned of God and
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It contains advice on ruling the heterogeneous empire as well as fighting foreign enemies. The work combines two of Constantine's earlier treatises, "On the Governance of the State and the various Nations"
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was written between 948 and 952. Chapters 27, 29, and 45 of the work support that view. Chapter 29 says, "now (today) is the VII indiction, the year 6457 from the creation of the world," and
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year 6457 from the creation of the world corresponds with 948/949 CE. Chapter 45 says, "now (today) is the X indiction, the year from the creation of the world 6460 in the reign of
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and in chapter 13, as well as at the end of the text, in chapter 51. In this text his son Romanus II is never designated as a self-sustained ruler. Thus, the whole
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115:(886–912). Leo VI gave the crown to young Constantine VII in 908 and he became the co-emperor. Leo VI died in May 912, and his brother and co-emperor 291:), concerning recent events in the imperial provinces. To this combination were added Constantine's own political instructions to his son, Romanus. 1352: 303:
a key to the foreign policy in the most dangerous and complicated area of the contemporary political scene, the area of northerners and Scythians,
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As to the historical and geographic information, which is often confusing and filled with legends, this information is in essence reliable.
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Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe
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Constantine's father, Leo was known for his learning and writings, and, correctly or not, Constantine VII also believed that his mother,
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Byzanz und Ostmitteleuropa 950-1453: Beiträge zu einer table-ronde des XIX. International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Copenhagen 1996
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when Constantine VII died. Still others believe the book just an unfinished manuscript written between about 926 and November 959.
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later proposed to include this work in his collection of Byzantine Texts. He gave up the plan for an edition, surrendering it to
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Constantine VII was too young to rule on his own, and the governorship was created. Later in May 919 Constantine VII married
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on a specific mission. In the preamble, the emperor makes a point that he has avoided convoluted expressions and "lofty
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is one of the most important sources for the study of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) and its neighbors.
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Of the Pechenegs, and how many advantages accrue from their being at peace with the emperor of the Romans
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in 1925. The first modern edition of the Greek text (by Gy. Moravscik) and its English translation (by
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hardships to a modern reader. For example, Constantine writes of the regular practice of sending
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The emperor Constantine VII "Porphyrogenitus" (905–959) was only surviving son of the emperor
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a comprehensive geographic and historical survey of most of the surrounding nations and
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a lesson in the diplomacy to be pursued in dealing with the nations of the same area
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a summary of the recent internal history, politics and organization of the Empire.
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The book content, according to its preface, is divided into four sections:
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manual for the use of Constantine's son and successor, the Emperor
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In 1892 R. Vari planned a new critical edition of this work and
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and On the Themes) and finished a biography of his grandfather,
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became the ruler of Constantinople, but Alexander died in 913.
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The Greek text in its entirety was published seven times. The
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must have been written while Constantine VII was still alive.
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The language Constantine uses is rather straightforward High
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was compiled at some point after 952 and before November
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Index


Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
Greek
Greek
Byzantine Emperor
Constantine VII
domestic
foreign policy
Romanos II
Byzantine encyclopaedism
Leo VI the Wise
Alexander
Helena Lekapene
Romanos I Lekapenos
Constantinople
Eastern Roman Empire
Zoe Karbonopsina
Theophanes the Confessor
Eastern Roman Empire
De Ceremoniis
Basil I
Proem
Byzantine
Constantine
Romanus
959
Hungarians
Pechenegs
Kievan Rus'
South Slavs

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