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The Narratio De Imagine Edessena Attributed to Constantine Porphyrogenitus

2009
This chapter presents selective texts and translations dealing with the story of the holy image of Christ written by Constantine, Emperor of the Romans in Christ the eternal king. Abgars letter to Jesus is also translated here. This is followed by Jesus letter to Abgar. Christ gave the letter to Ananias.
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Constantine Porphyrogenitus

1993
Abstract The tenth century was an age of encyclopaedias and anthologies, the most ambitious and certainly the largest of which was the series of fifty-three volumes of excerpts from the Greek and Byzantine historians, planned and produced at the direction of the Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus himself.
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The Memory Palace of Constantine Porphyrogenitus

1999
An investigation of the roles of late antique visual and literary exemplars in Byzantine court culture of the ninth and tenth centuries. Three modes of memory are detected: the appropriative, the interpretative, and the sequential. Each can be seen at work in the time of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, although this reign represents the culmination ...
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The Official Histories of Constantine Porphyrogenitus

2013
The reign of Romanus I Lecapenus (920-44), although it was a time of growing prosperity and military success, apparently failed to attract contemporary historians. A poorly educated man of humble origins, Romanus had little interest in patronizing literature.
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Epistolary Topoi in the Correspondence Between Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus and Theodore, Bishop of Cyzicus

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The letters exchanged between Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (913-959) and his close friend Theodore, Bishop of Cyzicus, are of the utmost importance, representing the only preserved example of authentic writings from the emperor. Other than the fact that the correspondence offers details concerning the relationship between Theodore ...
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The Names of the Dnieper Rapids in Chapter 9 of Constantine Porphyrogenitus’ De administrando imperio

Scando-Slavica, 2003
New interpretations are given for [ν]Έσσουπῆ ‘watching’, ‘the guard’; Ἀeιφὸρ ‘the ever-shallow rapids’; βαρουφόροϛ – βουλνηπράχ ‘the bare rapids; Λeάντι, βeρούτζ ‘the violently rushing rapids’. Στρούκουν has a Greek ending and is not a dative plural. Ναστρeζή is a collective formation with a diminutive sense. Both names mean ‘the small rapids’.
Elsa Melin, B. Ellenberger
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Constantine Porphyrogenitus as the Source for destruction of Salona

Vjesnik za arheologiju i historiju dalmatinsku, 1984
In the 29th and 30th chapters of his famous treatuse De Administrando Imperio Contantine Porphyrogenitus described the Avao-Slav capture of Salona. Higly important is the report in the 29th chapter concerning this event which, according ti its content and context, must have been written in Split.
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Towards the Etymology of the Names of the Dnieper Rapids in Constantine Porphyrogenitus: Βράσμα Νεροῦ

Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, 2015
The names of seven Dnieper rapids in Constantine’s Porphyrogenitus De administrando imperio (‘On the Governance of the Empire’) are given both in ‘Slavonic’ and in ‘Rhosic’, i.e. Old Scandinavian, and in addition Constantine explains the meanings of some of these names in Greek. The present paper focuses on the name for the sixth rapid, Βeρούτςη/Λeάντι,
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