De Administrando Imperio (Dumbarton Oaks Texts) - Softcover

Porphyrogenitus, Constantine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0884023435 ISBN 13: 9780884023432

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2009

Synopsis

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a wide variety of information on both foreign relations and internal administration and is one of the most important historical documents surviving from the Middle Byzantine period.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 empire’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.

About this title

About the Author:

Gyula Moravcsik was a distinguished Byzantinologist best known for his monumental work on the historical sources on Byzantine relations with the Turks, Byzantinoturcica.

Review:

With the republication of this notable tenth-century treatise on the statecraft by the Byzantine emperor Constantine Porphyrogentius, Dumbarton Oaks has inaugurated a most welcome and auspicious project of issuing revised and updated editions of major Byzantine texts...The revised edition of the De Administrando Imperio has been admirably accomplished. (Catholic Historical Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0884023435
• ISBN 13: 9780884023432
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 354
• Editor: Moravcsik Gyula