Description: The 10th-century treatise on the military provinces (the 'themes') of the Byzantine empire is one of the most enigmatic of the works ascribed to the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos. This English translation and detailed commentary on this important text makes it available for the first time to a wider readership.
Brief description:
John Haldon is Shelby Cullom Davis '30 Professor of European History, emeritus and Professor of Byzantine History & Hellenic Studies, emeritus, Princeton University. He is Director, Climate Change and History Research Initiative and Director, Environmental History Lab, Program in Medieval Studies, Princeton University. His many books include: Byzantium in the iconoclast era, 680-850. A history (CUP 2011) (with L. Brubaker); A critical commentary on the Taktika of Leo VI (Dumbarton Oaks 2014); A Tale of Two Saints: The Passions and Miracles of Sts Theodore 'the recruit' and 'the general' (LUP 2016) and The empire that would not die. The paradox of eastern Roman survival 640-740 (Harvard University Press 2016).