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Ekklesiarches: The sacristan of a church, responsible for preparing for services by setting out t...

Doux: Originally in the later Roman period a commander of a military unit; commander of a unit of...

Gastald: Lombard royal official in Italy in charge of a gastaldate, with civil and military power...

Despotes: High imperial title in the later Byzantine period, generally reserved for members of th...

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

Turkic-speaking nomadic warriors who appeared in the north Black Sea steppe in the sixth century,...

True Cross: wooden cross on which Christ was crucified, or fragments – relics – supposedly from it.

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

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

Iconoclasm: Rejection of the honoring of sacred images as a form of idolatry. Condemned as a here...

Davidic of or pertaining to David, king of Israel, or to his family

Fatimids: Shiite dynasty based in Cairo from the later tenth century; their dominions included no...

Monothelitism: (from monos and thelein ‘to will’) doctrine recognising the existence of one ‘will...

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

Dioiketes: Fiscal administrator responsible for the land-tax, usually in a single diocese, from t...

Diocese: Lat. dioecesa, Gk. Dioikêsis, an administrative unit consisting of several provinces; fr...

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

Hexagram: Silver coin introduced by Heraclius, lit. “six grams,” 12 to a nomisma. Although issued...