Constantinian Excerpts
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The Constantinian Excerpts was a 53-volume Greek anthology of excerpts from at least 25 historians. It was commissioned by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII, but probably not completed until after
A page from the Codex Peirescianus
Constantine VII
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Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus was the fourth Byzantine emperor of the Macedonian dynasty, reigning from 6 June 913 to 9 November 959. He was the son of Emperor Leo VI and his fourth wife, Zoe Karbon
Constantinian Excerpts
…The Constantinian Excerpts was a 53-volume Greek anthology of excerpts from at least 25 historians. It was commissioned by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII (945–959), but probably not completed until after his death. Today only four volumes survive in various states of completeness. The titles of 21 other…
Constantine VII crowned by Christ, detail of an ivory plaque, Pushkin Museum, AD 945
Baptism of Constantine VII by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos.
Constantine VII dining with Simeon of Bulgaria.
The Bulgarians crush the Byzantine army led by Leo Phokas at Anchialus.