Kekaumenos (Greek: Κεκαυμένος) is the family name of the otherwise unidentified Byzantine author of the Strategikon, a manual on military and household...
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Katakalon Kekaumenos (Greek: Κατακαλὼν Κεκαυμένος) was a prominent Byzantine general of the mid-11th century. Katakalon Kekaumenos was born in Koloneia...
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The Strategikon of Kekaumenos (Greek: Στρατηγικὸν τοῦ Κεκαυμένου, Latin: Cecaumeni Strategicon) is a late 11th century Byzantine manual offering advice...
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river Pleres. Florin Curta adds that Kekaumenos calls Vlachs "migrants from the northern parts", as Kekaumenos associates them with Dacians or Bessi...
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emperor. Along with Isaac, the delegation included the magistros Katakalon Kekaumenos, who had just been dismissed as doux of Antioch; the vestarches Michael...
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Byzantine commanders, Aaron and Katakalon Kekaumenos, disagreed on how best to confront the invasion. Kekaumenos favoured an immediate and pre-emptive strike...
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knowledgeable contemporaries, the former officials Michael Attaleiates and Kekaumenos, agree with Skylitzes that by demobilising these soldiers, Constantine...
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1981:386 Primary sources Russian Primary Chronicle Strategikon of Kekaumenos by Kekaumenos Alexiad by Anna Komnena Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus by John...
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bosanske srednjevjekovne države. Svjetlost. Fine 1991, p. 213. Kekaumenos 108.11-12 Kekaumenos 104.14 Lazarević 2014, p. 434. Zonaras 17.20.7 Glykas 594.3-7...
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position of archon of the Vlachs to Nekulitsa is mentioned in Strategikon of Kekaumenos (written between 1075 and 1078 AD). After the Avar Khaganate collapsed...
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by Ordericus Vitalis Játvarðar Saga Laxdœla saga Strategikon of Kekaumenos by Kekaumenos Buckler, Georgina. Anna Komnena: A Study. Oxford: University Press...
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Constantinople. In a Greek book written in the 1070s, the Strategikon of Kekaumenos, Araltes (i.e. Harald) is said to have won the favour of the emperor....
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sources of the 11th century, like in the Strategikon of Kekaumenos and Anna Komnene's Alexiad. Kekaumenos, who wrote in the late 1070s, in particular stresses...
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Kürgen, father of Princess Luiza. (deceased) Toprak Sergen as Katakalon Kekaumenos, a Byzantine Tekfur (deceased). Emre Kızılırmak as Georgian Prince Rati...
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medieval Byzantine sources in the 11th century, in the Strategikon of Kekaumenos and Anna Komnene's Alexiad, in the area of Thessaly. In the 12th century...
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Skylitzes' contemporaries, the former officials Michael Attaleiates and Kekaumenos, agree that by demobilizing these soldiers, Constantine did catastrophic...
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dictionary also states the various uses and sources of spatha. Annales 12.35. Kekaumenos, Strategikon, "Oration of Admonition to an Emperor", para. 81 A professional...
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katepano of Paradounavon, or the general and military author Katakalon Kekaumenos. The family became particularly prominent under the Komnenian emperors;...
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routed the Bulgarian army and took 15,000 prisoners (14,000 according to Kekaumenos). Modern historians, however, such as Vasil Zlatarski, claim that these...
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firm in the centre. Victory was won by his left wing, led by Katakalon Kekaumenos, which routed the imperial right, reached and entered their camp, and...
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appear in Byzantine sources in the 11th century, in the Strategikon of Kekaumenos and Anna Komnene's Alexiad). In the 12th century, the Jewish traveller...
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Kekaumenos, agree with Skylitzes that by demobilizing these soldiers Constantine did catastrophic harm to the Empire's eastern defenses. Kekaumenos says...
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all prominent men of Larissa, two of whom are specifically mentioned by Kekaumenos as being Vlachs; Slavota Karmalakis and a certain Beriboes (Berivoi)....
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p. 13 Angelov et al 1981, p. 81 Haldon 1999, p. 186 "Strategikon by Kekaumenos" in GIBI, vol. VII, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, p. 20 Bozhilov...
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2 (54): 219–225. Skylitzes, pp. 435–436. Kekaumenos, Strategikon pp. 65–66 Skylitzes, p. 436. Kekaumenos, Strategikon, eds. B. Wassilewsky and P. Jernstedt...
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ancient Rome, Oxford University Press, 1998 ISBN 978-0-19-512332-6, p. 87. Kekaumenos, Strategikon, "Oration of Admonition to an Emperor", para. 81 Dorothy...
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Byzantine-Georgian army, under Byzantine generals Aaronios and Katakalon Kekaumenos (supported by the Georgian duke Liparit IV), confronts the invading Seljuk...
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of Constantine's son and successor, the Emperor Romanos II. (948–952) Kekaumenos, Strategikon (1075/1078), chapters 77 – 91. Archbishop Theophylact of...
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first to write of the Romanians (or Vlachs). The 11th-century scholar Kekaumenos wrote of a Vlach homeland situated "near the Danube and [...] the Sava...
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Constantine Bodin)". Vizantološki institut SANU. Ćirković 2004, p. 24-25. Kekaumenos, ed Litavrin, 170-2 Paul Magdalino, Byzantium in the year 1000, p. 124...
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