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Hexagram: Silver coin introduced by Heraclius, lit. “six grams,” 12 to a nomisma. Although issued...
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Pronouncements on Christ’s nature of Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria, endorsed by the council of Ch...
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Monothelitism: (from monos and thelein ‘to will’) doctrine recognising the existence of one ‘will...
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Kommerkiarioi: Fiscal officials responsible for state-supervised commerce and the taxes thereon. ...
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Psychika: Gifts made to monasteries in exchange for the monks’ commemoration of the donors and/or...
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Armeniakoi: one of the earliest themes; based in northern Anatolia with headquarters at Euchaita.
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Aktemon: A peasant with no property, no oxen or plough.
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True Cross: wooden cross on which Christ was crucified, or fragments – relics – supposedly from it.
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Boukellarioi: theme formed in the later eighth century in north-west Asia Minor, taking its name ...
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Illustris: Until the middle of the 6th century the highest grade of senatorial rank.
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Christian sacrament in which the body and the blood of Christ are conveyed to believers in the fo...
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Thrakesioi: one of the earliest themes, based in western Anatolia with headquarters at Chonai.
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despot (despot ¯ es) ‘lord, master’: High imperial title in the Palaiologan period, generally res...
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Autokrator: Greek equivalent of the Latin imperator, emperor, used especially after the 7th centu...
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Turkmen (Turkoman, Turcoman): Turkish nomadic tribesmen from Central Asia who streamed into Anato...
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Circus factions: associations that staged circus games; fervent supporters’ associations of one o...
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Egyptian population who spoke the Coptic language; after Egypt’s mid-seventh-century conquest by ...
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Normans: people from north-west France, originally of Scandinavian origin; in the eleventh centur...
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Iconoclasm: Rejection of the honoring of sacred images as a form of idolatry. Condemned as a here...
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Arians: followers of a heresy (named after its main proponent, the third century theologian Arius...
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