Description: The work known as Pseudo-Kodinos, the fourteenth-century text which is one of two surviving ceremonial books from the Byzantine Empire, is presented here for the first time in English translation. With facing page Greek text and the first in-depth analysis in the form of commentary and individual studies on the hierarchy, the ceremonies, court atti
Review Quotes: '... this book is immensely useful for every scholar and student interested in medieval ceremonial and is, indeed, a piece of great scholarship, which will serve as a work of reference for generations of medievalists to come. For this, we should all extend our warmest thanks and congratulations to the authors.' Speculum