The book of ceremonies : : with the Greek edition of the Corpus scriptorum historiae Byzantinae (Bonn, 1829) / / Constantine Porphyrogennetos ; translated by Ann Moffatt and Maxeme Tall.

• Superior document: Byzantina Australiensia / Australian Association for Byzantine Studies ; 18
• Author: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies.; Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Emperor of the East, 905-959.
• TeilnehmendeR: Moffatt, Ann.; Tall, Maxeme.; Reiske, Johann Jacob, 1716-1774.; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies.
• Place / Publishing House: Canberra ;, Virginia, Queensland, Australia : : Australian Association for Byzantine Studies,, 2012.
• Any de publicació: 2012
• Idioma: English; Ancient Greek
• Col·lecció: Byzantina Australiensia 18.
• Descripció física: 1 online resource (912 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Each page of translation includes a facsimile of the Greek edition of Johann Jacob Reiske, published in the Corpus scriptorum historiae Byzantinae (Bonn, 1829), forming a parallel text.

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 the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII (905-959). It preserves material from the fifth century through to the 960s. Chapters deal with diverse...