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

Origenism:Attempt to fuse the fundamentals ofGreek philosophy with the Christian creed, interpret...

Alloy containing silver and gold in a Byzantine coin.

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

Pronouncements on Christ’s nature of Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria, endorsed by the council of Ch...

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

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

Theotokos ‘god-bearing’ (from theos ‘god’ and tokos ‘bringing forth’): description of the Virgin ...

Kommerkiarioi: Fiscal officials responsible for state-supervised commerce and the taxes thereon. ...

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

Autokrator: Greek equivalent of the Latin imperator, emperor, used especially after the 7th centu...

Thrakesioi: one of the earliest themes, based in western Anatolia with headquarters at Chonai.

Kapnikon: Tax on “hearths” or households, introduced probably during the later 7th or 8th century.

Confraternity: A group of laymen, clerics, and monks linked to monasteries and formed to honor pa...

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

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

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

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

despot (despot ¯ es) ‘lord, master’: High imperial title in the Palaiologan period, generally res...

Scyths: Classical name for Iranian-speaking nomads of Black Sea steppes; used by Byzantines of se...