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Laura: A type of monastery in which monks lived as solitaries during the week, but assembled on w...

Ecloga: “Selections” from Roman law, interpreted in the light of its own time and codifi ed as a ...

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

Sallarid: 10th.- to 11th.-century Muslim dynasty which ruled in the eastern Caucasus and north-we...

Strategos: A general; in Byzantine times usually the governor of a military district or thema, an...

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

Scriptorium: A writing bureau or clerical copying establishment, usually associated with a monast...

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

Exarchate: territorial and administrative unit commanded by an exarch; in modern usage, often the...

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

Bailo (s.), Baili (pl.): general term for administrator; head of the Venetian colony in Constanti...

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

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

Genikon(sekreton): The general treasury and main fiscal department of government after the 7th ce...

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

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

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

Augustus (m.), Augusta (f.) senior emperor within a group of coemperors, or within a single famil...

Romania: ‘land of the Romans’ (i.e. Byzantines); by the seventh century, a term for the Christian...

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