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Illustris: Until the middle of the 6th century the highest grade of senatorial rank.

The name of several officials, the most important being the eparch of the City, the civil governo...

Franks: A Germanic grouping from the lower Rhine, frequently recruited into the Roman army; unite...

Normans: people from north-west France, originally of Scandinavian origin; in the eleventh centur...

Stratiotes: A soldier; by derivation from the 10th century a holder of “military” land, subject t...

Vlachs: Romance-language-speaking pastoral inhabitants of eastern and south-eastern Europe, desce...

Ecumenical councils: (from oikoumenikos, ‘worldwide’) conferences of the bishops of the whole chu...

Danishmend: Turkoman dynasty that ruled over Cappadocia, Sebasteia and Melitene from late elevent...

tribunus (s.), tribuni (pl.): term for indigenous local rulers in southern Italy, which fell out ...

Christian sacrament in which the body and the blood of Christ are conveyed to believers in the fo...

Visigoths (western Goths): Groupings of Goths who raided into Roman territory in the fourth and f...

Rupenids: First dynasty to rule Armenian Cilicia, from the late eleventh to early thirteenth cent...

Aktemon: A peasant with no property, no oxen or plough.

A type of annuity administered by monasteries which provided (elderly) laity with a regular allot...

Caesaropapism: system whereby the monarch exercised unfettered control over the church in his dom...

Zealots: strongly iconophile monks in the late eighth to tenth century; midfourteenth century gro...

Psychika: Gifts made to monasteries in exchange for the monks’ commemoration of the donors and/or...

Genikon Logothesion: The general treasury and main fiscal department of government after the seve...

Boukellarioi: theme formed in the later eighth century in north-west Asia Minor, taking its name ...