De Administrando Imperio (Dumbarton Oaks Texts)

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A Wide Variety Of Information On Both Foreign Relations And Internal Administration And Is One Of The Most Important Historical Documents Surviving From The Middle Byzantine Period.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 Empireâe(tm)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. Title Pages Table of Contents Foreword to the First Edition Foreword to the Second Edition General Introduction Critical Introduction List of Signs Text and Translation Constantine to His Son Romanus Proem 1. Pechenegs and the advantages of peace 2. Pechenegs and Russians 3. Pechenegs and Turks 4. Pechenegs, Russians, and Turks 5. Pechenegs and Bulgarians 6. Pechenegs and Chersonites 7. The dispatch of imperial agents from Cherson to Patzinacia 8. The dispatch of imperial agents with ships of war from Constantinople to Patzinacia 9. The coming of the Russians in ‘monoxyla’ from Russia to Constantinople 10. Of Chazaria, how and by whom war must be made upon it 11.The city of Cherson and the city of Bosporus 12. Black Bulgaria and Chazaria 13. The nations that are neighbours to the Turks 14. The genealogy of Mahomet 15. The tribe of the Fatemites 16. Stephen the astrologer 17. From the Chronicle of Theophanes 18. The second chief of the Arabs, Aboubachar, three years 19. The third chief of the Arabs, Ouma 20. The fourth chief of the Arabs, Outhman 21. From the Chronicle of Theophanes: the year from the creation of the world 6171 22. From the Chronicle of Theophanes 23. Iberia and Spain 24. Spain 25. From the history of the holy Theophanes of Sigriane 26. The genealogy of the illustrious king Hugh 27. The province of Lombardy and of the principalities and governorships therein 28. Story of the settlement of what is now called Venice 29. Dalmatia and the adjacent nations in it 30. Story of the province of Dalmatia 31. The Croats and the country they now dwell in 32. The Serbs and the country they now dwell in 33. The Zachlumi and the country they now dwell in 34. The Terbouniotes and Kanalites and the country they now dwell in 35. The Diocletians and the country they now dwell in 36. The Pagani, also called Arentani, and the country they now dwell in 37. The nation of the Pechenegs 38. The genealogy of the nation of the Turks, and whence they are descended 39. The nation of the Kabaroi 40. The clans of the Kabaroi and the Turks 41. The country of Moravia 42. Geographical descriptions 43. The country of Taron 44. The country of Apachouni; areas around Lakes Van and Urmiah 45. The Iberians/Georgians 46. The genealogy of the Iberians and about the city of Ardanoutzi 47. Of the migration of the Cypriotes the story is as follows 48. Chapter 39 of the holy sixth synod, held in the Domed Hall of the Great Palace 49. The subjugation of the Slavs and subjection to the church of Patras 50. The Slavs in the province of Peloponnesus, the Milingoi and Ezeritai, and their tribute, and likewise about the city of Maïna 51. The imperial galley and the protospatharius of the basin 52. Demand made for horses in the province of Peloponnesus in the time of the sovereign Romanus, as stated above 53. Story of the city of Cherson INDEX OF PROPER NAMES GLOSSARY GRAMMATICAL NOTES INDEX OF SOURCES AND PARALLEL PASSAGES