Description: This is a reprint of the second revised edition of the text and translation written and compiled by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the tenth century. The edition includes general and critical introductions, an index of proper names, and an extensive glossary, as well as grammatical notes and an index of sources and parallel passages.
Brief description: Gyula Moravcsik was a distinguished Byzantinologist best known for his monumental work on the historical sources on Byzantine relations with the Turks, Byzantinoturcica.
Review Quotes: With the republication of this notable tenth-century treatise on the statecraft by the Byzantine emperor Constantine Porphyrogentius, Dumbarton Oaks has inaugurated a most welcome and auspicious project of issuing revised and updated editions of major Byzantine texts...The revised edition of the De Administrando Imperio has been admirably accomplished.-- "Catholic Historical Review"