This is the first modern language translation of the entire text of the tenth-century Greek Book of Ceremonies (De ceremoniis), a work compiled and edited by th

The first systematic study of the practice of royal self-coronations from late antiquity to the present.

This comprehensive volume offers new insights into a seminal period of medieval Eastern Roman imperial history: the rule of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos (91

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Biography of the medieval Mediterranean's most cross-culturally significant sculptural monument, the tallest in the pre-modern world.