Book on the courtly ceremony of the Byzantine Empire
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in a 945 carved ivory.
The De Ceremoniis (fully De cerimoniis aulae Byzantinae) is the conventional Latin name for a Greek book of ceremonial protocol at the court of the Byzantine emperors in Constantinople. Its Greek title is often cited as Ἔκθεσις τῆς βασιλείου τάξεως ("Explanation of the Order of the Palace"), taken from the work's preface, or Περὶ τῆς Βασιλείου Τάξεως ("On the Order of the Palace"). In non-specialist English sources, it tends to be called the Book of Ceremonies of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos (variably spelt), a formula used by writers including David Talbot Rice and the modern English translation.
The DeCeremoniis (fully De cerimoniis aulae Byzantinae) is the conventional Latin name for a Greek book of ceremonial protocol at the court of the Byzantine...
who produced three encyclopaedic manuals: the De Administrando Imperio, De Thematibus, and DeCeremoniis. Other notable figures were the polymaths Leo...
Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos mentions in his book DeCeremoniis two tribes named Krevatades (Krevatas) and Sarban (Sarbani) located...
four, books; De Administrando Imperio (bearing in Greek the heading Πρὸς τὸν ἴδιον υἱὸν Ῥωμανόν), DeCeremoniis (Περὶ τῆς Βασιλείου Τάξεως), De Thematibus...
known only through literary descriptions, chiefly the 10th-century DeCeremoniis, a collection of imperial ceremonies, but, as the chief symbol of imperial...
Within the encampment, they were positioned at the exits. In his work DeCeremoniis, Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus orders great numbers of menaulia to...
the younger son of its ruling prince. In the mid-10th century, the DeCeremoniis of Constantine VII lists the ceremonial title "prince of Gaeta" among...
Mytilene. All other contemporary authors give 9 July. Constantine VII's DeCeremoniis states that he was crowned on the morning after Anastasius' death. His...
Christianity. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 335–336. Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Deceremoniis aulae byzantinae, Patrologiae cursiis completus, Series Graeco-Latinaed...
the death of her predecessor. Zoe herself died in 899. According to DeCeremoniis by Constantine VII, she had given birth to at least two daughters. However...
which took place during the birth of a porphyrogénnētos boy in his work DeCeremoniis aulae byzantinae. The Byzantines themselves ascribed it either to the...
famous horses and chariot drivers, none of which survive. In his book DeCeremoniis (book II,15, 589), the Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus described...
emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos (912-959) mentioned in his book DeCeremoniis, apart from the Slavic Croats and Serbs, there were two tribes named...
up to Marcian as described by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the DeCeremoniis, four of which now stand in front of the İstanbul Archaeology Museums'...
("king") was reserved for the Byzantine monarch only. A chapter from DeCeremoniis of Constantine VII (r. 913–959), a Byzantine book of court protocols...
described in the 10th century by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the DeCeremoniis. In noting the character of Arcadius, the historian J. B. Bury described...
known only from lists in literary sources, one of which is contained in DeCeremoniis. Although the sarcophagi of the emperors were raided by Crusaders during...
(Σερβία /Σερβλίας) in De Administrando Imperio, and mentions "archon of the Serbs" (ἄρχων Σερβλίας) in his protocol of DeCeremoniis, and the title is used...
who was made caesar. A description of the ceremony is preserved in DeCeremoniis which says that the kamelaukion (caesar cap) of Heraclonas was removed...
tribes'); and the dromōn proper, crewed by two ousiai. In Constantine VII's DeCeremoniis, the heavy dromōn is said to have an even larger crew of 230 rowers...
recorded in ceremonial processions, most notably in the 10th-century DeCeremoniis, but they may have been carried in battle as well. When not used, they...
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