Charles M. Brand and Anthony Cutler
... VIII , emperor ( 1025–28 ); born 960/1 , died Constantinople 12 Nov. 1028 , according to Yaḥya . Son of Romanos II , Constantine was crowned co-emperor probably 30 Mar. 962 ( Oikonomides , Documents , pt.XIII [ 1965 ], 173–76). During the reign of his elder brother Basil II , he lived in idleness. He married Helena , daughter of Alypios , who bore him three daughters: Eudokia (who became a nun), Zoe , and Theodora . Upon succeeding his brother, Constantine continued his devotion to chariot racing and theatrical spectacles, although he...
Emperor (1025–28); born 960/1, died Constantinople 12 Nov. 1028, according to Yaḥya.Son of Romanos II, Constantine was crowned co-emperor probably 30 Mar. 962 (Oikonomides, Documents, pt.XIII [1965], ...
David Parker
...of more than one later text. The theory began to emerge that there was a ‘Constantinian watershed’. The persecution by the Emperor Diocletian, lasting between the years 303 and 312, had seen the destruction of many Christian books. It seemed possible that, with the Peace of Constantine in 312, the church had used its comparatively small stock of surviving books to produce a number of ‘standards’. Churches whose books had been destroyed needed replacements, and in an era of growth many new copies were needed for new churches. As a result, much of the variety...
Emperor (12 Mar. 1449–29 May 1453); born Constantinople 8 Feb. 1405, died Constantinople 29 May 1453.Last member of the Palaiologan dynasty and final ruler of the Byz. Empire, Constantine ...
(1440s–1503),niece of the last Byzantine emperors John VIII and Constantine XI and second wife of Grand Prince Ivan III of Muscovy. She brought dynastic and cultural prestige to the ...
Or Tzakones (Τζάκωνες), first mentioned by Constantine VII (De cer. 696.4), and described as apelatai; some versions of the text identify the Tsakones as Laconians. Michael VIII transferred loyal ...
(Ζωή), second daughter of Constantine VIII, empress (with her sister Theodora, 21 Apr.–12 June 1042); born ca.978, died Constantinople 1050.As heiress of the Macedonian dynasty, Zoe was wed to ...
(Γουδέλης, fem. Γουδελίνα), a noble Byz. family. The first Goudeles, perhaps of Slavic origin, was blinded by Constantine VIII for his role in a plot organized by Presianos (see Aaronios) ...
Empress (22/23 May–31 Dec. 1067); died after 1078.Niece of Patr. Michael I Keroularios, Eudokia married Constantine Doukas by 1049. Before he became Constantine X, she bore him Michael, two ...
Civil official, teacher, and historian of the empire of Nicaea; born Constantinople 1217, died Constantinople 1282.Related by marriage to Michael VIII Palaiologos, Akropolites was the father of ...
(c.1010–75) Patriarch of Constantinople (1064–75).One of the leading Byzantine intellectuals of his day, a leader of law studies, he was exiled, became a monk, then was made patriarch. He ...
Dynasty of TheodosiusDynasty of LeoDynasty of JustinDynasty of HeracliusSyrian DynastyAmorian DynastyMacedonian DynastyDucas DynastyComnenian DynastyAngelus DynastyLascarid DynastyPalaeologan ...
Or Argyropoulos, emperor (1028–34); born ca.968, died Constantinople 11/12 Apr. 1034.Coming from a noble family, Romanos was oikonomos of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, then Eparch of the city. ...
Third daughter of Constantine VIII, co-empress (with her sister Zoe) 21 Apr.–12 June 1042, sole empress 1055–56; died Constantinople 31 Aug. 1056. Early in the reign of Romanos III, she ...
(Fenari Isa Camii), founded in the Lycus valley in the western part of Constantinople probably by Constantine Lips; it is traditionally believed to have been inaugurated in June 907. Whether ...
(23 July 685–2 Aug. 686)A Syrian from Antioch, son of Cyriacus, he perhaps came to Rome as a refugee from the Arab invasions. As a deacon he was one of Agatho's three representatives at the Sixth ...
(18 Jan.–7 Oct. 336)Although LP describes him as a Roman, son of Priscus, nothing is reliably known of his background. He should possibly be identified with the Mark mentioned by Constantine the ...
In ecclesiastical usage, the recognition by the State of a particular Church as that of the State. In OT Judaism and in much of the ancient world, religious observance was part of the civil order, ...
Medieval political theory in Western Europe arose out of the controversy between Church and State over the question of the investiture of bishops by the secular powers. Since the clergy were ...
Papal headdress. It attained its present shape, like a beehive, in the 15th cent. It was worn by, or carried in front of, the Pope at important non-liturgical functions, such as Papal processions, ...
