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    The De Cerimoniis or De Ceremoniis (fully De cerimoniis aulae Byzantinae) is the conventional Latin name for a Greek book of ceremonial protocol at the...
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    who produced three encyclopaedic manuals: the De Administrando Imperio, De Thematibus, and De Ceremoniis. Other notable figures were the polymaths Leo...
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    Constantine VII (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    four, books; De Administrando Imperio (bearing in Greek the heading Πρὸς τὸν ἴδιον υἱὸν Ῥωμανόν), De Ceremoniis (Περὶ τῆς Βασιλείου Τάξεως), De Thematibus...
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    Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos mentions in his book De Ceremoniis two tribes named Krevatades (Krevatas) and Sarban (Sarbani) located...
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    known only through literary descriptions, chiefly the 10th-century De Ceremoniis, a collection of imperial ceremonies, but, as the chief symbol of imperial...
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    libri duo De Ceremoniis Aulae Byzantinae. Vol. 2. Lipsiae: Ioannis Friderici Gleditschii. Constantini Porphyrogeniti libri II. de ceremoniis aulae Byzant...
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    Mytilene. All other contemporary authors give 9 July. Constantine VII's De Ceremoniis states that he was crowned on the morning after Anastasius' death. His...
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  • serving under the protasekretis. According to the mid-10th century De Ceremoniis of Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos (r. 913–959), a decanus...
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    the younger son of its ruling prince. In the mid-10th century, the De Ceremoniis of Constantine VII lists the ceremonial title "prince of Gaeta" among...
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    described in the 10th century by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the De Ceremoniis. Eusebius states Athanasius was summoned by Jovian. Curran cites the...
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    emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos (912-959) mentioned in his book De Ceremoniis, apart from the Slavic Croats and Serbs, there were two tribes named...
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    this event: a prescriptive account of formalities and etiquette in De Ceremoniis or Book of Ceremonies (c. 950s, written or commissioned by Byzantine...
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    famous horses and chariot drivers, none of which survive. In his book De Ceremoniis (book II,15, 589), the Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus described...
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  • Within the encampment, they were positioned at the exits. In his work De Ceremoniis, Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus orders great numbers of menaulia to...
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    presided over by the Ecumenical Patriarch Acacius. The 10th-century De Ceremoniis gives a detailed account of his coronation as augustus, which is dated...
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    Constantinople. They were described by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the De Ceremoniis (mid-10th century), who specified them to be respectively of Constantine...
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    armband, a grand version of an armilla given to soldiers as an award. The De Ceremoniis of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos written a century earlier describes...
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    Christianity. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 335–336. Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, De ceremoniis aulae byzantinae, Patrologiae cursiis completus, Series Graeco-Latinaed...
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    which took place during the birth of a porphyrogénnētos boy in his work De Ceremoniis aulae byzantinae. The Byzantines themselves ascribed it either to the...
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    books (De Administrando Imperio, De Ceremoniis and On the Themes) and finished a biography of his grandfather, Basil I. The text known as De Administrando...
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    described in the 10th century by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the De Ceremoniis. In noting the character of Arcadius, the historian J. B. Bury described...
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    tribes'); and the dromōn proper, crewed by two ousiai. In Constantine VII's De Ceremoniis, the heavy dromōn is said to have an even larger crew of 230 rowers...
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    Church of the Holy Apostles (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    known only from lists in literary sources, one of which is contained in De Ceremoniis. Although the sarcophagi of the emperors were raided by Crusaders during...
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    Justinian I (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Byzantine Greek pronunciation: [i.ustini.aˈnos o ˈmeɣas]. Constantine VII's De Ceremoniis dates Justinian's coronation to 4 April, probably a confusion between...
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  • the death of her predecessor. Zoe herself died in 899. According to De Ceremoniis by Constantine VII, she had given birth to at least two daughters. However...
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    up to Marcian as described by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the De Ceremoniis, four of which now stand in front of the İstanbul Archaeology Museums'...
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    Constantine (son of Theophilos) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    this birth date. In any case, only one emperor is mentioned in the De Ceremoniis, a 10th-century book describing Byzantine courtly protocol and history...
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    of 899, but the role of its holder is unclear. In the 10th-century De Ceremoniis of Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos (r. 913–959), the aktouarios...
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    caesar's creation (in this case dating to Constantine V), is included in De Ceremoniis I.43. The title remained the highest in the imperial hierarchy until...
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    described in the 10th century by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the De Ceremoniis. Eudoxia and Arcadius had five known children. The main source about...
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