v Contents VOLUME 1 Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii Chronology xxxi Government and Politics 1 Overview Essay 1 Agentes in Rebus 4 Athanasios, Political Reforms of Late 13th/Early 14th Centuries 5 Autocracy 8 Bureau of Barbarians 11 Byzantinism 12 Caesaropapism 14 Church Synods 18 Cursus Publicus 19 De Administrando Imperio (Constantine VII) (10th century) 21 Diplomacy 24 Eastern Orthodox Church 28 Ecumenical Church Councils 32 Factions, Political 36 John the Lydian (ca. 490–ca. 570 CE) 39 Justinian I, Governmental Reforms of (sixth century) 41 Kletorologion of Philotheos (899 CE) 44 Koubikoularios 47 Kouropalates 49 Magistros 52 Master of Offices 54 Nobelissimos 56
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