Constantine Porphyrogenitus AND HIS WORLD ARNOLD TOYNBEE oxFoRD0 oxed tty Po 3 se geamt ey mais PREFACE Line Constantine Porpyrogeits, 1 wat educated on the say of Gree texts. “Ancient” Greek and Latin literature was ll he sop oe higher education in the humanities in Britain in my generation acy bere my education was over, I had come to fel that my voestin ek somenher in the Geld of the humanities, an I thought oth els Sat ‘tall in terms ofthe work of scholars to whom T hed been indebcae ‘These were the devoted modern Western elitr of the works of Greek sd Latin authors I was aware, fom experienc, ofthe value os Sled tor’ work " ‘iy that time there were already Sratrate eons of most ofthe extant works writen in Greek and Latin down tothe begining of he sessed, czatury ofthe Christian Era, but the extant work in Greek ef ater date than that wet, by comparison, stil inadequately edited forte mon par, Inthe ist deradeof te present century, C. de Borie editions ths Patriarch Niephoru’s chronicle and Theophane’s Ghenapaphi 4nd Geoegiat Monachu's chronic, whick had been published by Teubner ni, 1885-5, and gay respeeively, and A, Reifewcheid’sedivon ‘of Anna Connena’s Ale, published by Teubser in 188, siond ot as exceptions to the general Tale. Most Greek works writer in and ater the seventh century were accesible only in antiquated editions: the sevententh-centary French corpus and the eary-nineteeth-entary Bonn corps. Here, then, there was editeril work tobe done. I was assuming, a this stage, that my ow work would be editorial: and, bythe time Thad avived at my last year sr an undergraduate at Onford— ths was the university year 1gto-t1—I had put one particular piece of ceitoral work on my agenda. I ad cast engl for the task of etng ‘one group of the works of the East Roman Emperor Constantine VIL Perphyrogenitas was not so much interested in the extant clleion of excerpts, made tnd his direction, fom the works of Greek authors dating from before the debacle ofthe Roman Empire andthe Graeco-Roman eiviizaton in the seventh century. These examples had already been edited by the Seholars who had reassembled the surviving Kagments of the books fom Which Constantine's excerpts had been elle, My ambition wa edit Constantine's works dealing with East Roman affine that were of Iter date than the seventh-centry bresk in the continuity of ehvilation in ‘the Levant. I put this ambition of mine on recordin some Greck vss that T wrote towards the end ofthe year 1910.OM o ROR connie Ppgrogenis nd His Werlg ee sara tr oe Se a a sr gh Et pt ty "pe ire iar baste Bint ada 0 doa ra oer by tad kd ew. my bon eting Contanine Poy ta ey a pate? My ge EEL shone ou ton of Gon Schl cei tp ve plied in toe tas see ety hey on pp 597, he conten ohn sep Malo ips ad epred op or men panes Seay mele ire fon Coatanvopie Fone rhe Eira cg ad ae me realae ae ioe eg! Soar Gest pyogenes Eno Fah Td rev ead noun are ‘tg west a wed seat Comite tat wee et slay ey ron of G's ued view ha eae cinta ited ny epee i enly ee eae ‘new dt Bays he hat nce way en Yee making} My ove fo come Contacte Feat So er ad dren ple nae ey ety by mar i rose Pepe works on Fast Roman afi sist dt ie weeing The tat ctor wet Desens ae Benatar ne plein sO 690 and ange Tee ise weea aie of Resie eas ate Bak oni the only one that we have for the sand fr ge 2 O49; forall except chaptem 2-9 ‘raed on campaigning. The rest ty ee 1.2. Bary, ene Dt eR a Cop Preface a Constantine's works on Bast Reman airs have now been re-cdie, {Ghapiers 2-9 of Book Il a the De Curinons (Puiltheoss hla ‘were republted in ott, by Bary himsely ina reed tent, based 9a s"fewchand study of the Leipag and Jerusalem mansion, sod Sccompanied by a monograph hs wn on Tht Inj een: te the Nit Gy. Thane acopy oi hat waren tore oe ie revew: Mon of Bok Lhe Dr Cantante ae ina {s-400y A Vogt in the Cllecton byrne de Ascation Bade ‘The De Admanrand Iperwess receded i nf-taywith an Engh trasation end a commentary, by Gy. Morac tnd} Jere? ‘Te De Thema was reedited Sn tgp, whan olucion soda Comsmentary by A Pert ‘tow i that I ave ot had hand inthis work, in pit of my eaiy ambions? One araver that le than ft year fer had decaed thes ampiationin the Grek ves already quoted, the Fit Word Wet turned my activites into other channels A thay I waht have started fon the ak of editing Constantines works on Eat Roman fin in the years 1gtg-2g when {wens the Bt holder ofthe Keres Chast of Byrantne and Modern Greck Sttie inthe Unversty of Landon, By Ait time, however, nd eae that my mfr was tote text propey edited by textual hola, a materia for Hive ey bat wot be textual scholar myzele Anyway, my ene ofthe Korte Char ended ftbruply in 192, and for the Rex t-two years Twas engaged on incetectalenterpries in wich East Roman af played easly seal par. However, this fd of sadly never receded fom it crginal place— 1 high place—in my hitoriel Interne A et of elke eon of hte Patti emir arin seby Tetris tency fae Ov eam a gp Po er ome oe ahd i a5 ‘Teo Sok ap 4 (9-90 (0 Pas enya oP TE S be a sade by Jenkins, were ble ioe volte ae a, une Ian ee ia Se Sees Jenin et 5 fara tnt he cm waa 9) OF oe lagen ei ferry a eink enemy eran ace [Mish tae een stele seal gunn of page 3 Buy, a eaenb is Wot tine Porprogeites Cons onan ai which Thadacquicedin 1929, Sonica Wt yu 2p a jam ee fact nde nl SE Shea nett oom he fe i sll certany nat be ove themes t0 be. Yet, though my a Fe ed cag yt Span oe Crain When, inte sig fo, T ingested Comoe ype ay The ek rots tow ao SE Rate ey cdl ot Se eae proctitis (Mill aibute wo Bury, who, besides being a very great historian, was also Feces Ss tein nt se ret so he eg esterase Sea genre mere te ng ee cen orton tn ae Brice eer reepemrery se res oe ee ea eer ere pt En ee Pare ects ue ae No fd i ni tegen ssh [hee mera ee Bota tient Ge ech ice eee en Sues Pacts a re te gene ay Tegan Aa ee? tit ating monasticism was important fiscally, economically, and socially. ‘The year a6, which isthe date of the foundation of the Great 7 sone indole rente Gra Lrn _mnasticim wat a more active force in Byzantine Greek rel it = ate reno eget ona gn en uring the confict over eins (726 Canine wc “Fo en es marth Zh sty ty ne en Is absinthe ated Poe * 1 have red to confine i within the smallest hrnologia compa hat teri mice for making Consasnes wool tigi T fave ot TRivied my narrative any farther frward yond the Yarn lack Genastine Porphyrogeits died, than the exon sabegeee teat Sich [could windup without breaking afin the mie of hese have flowed the Empecon! agrarian lgiston at fr at asd Ts Nov! No 29 of 005-4 the pies relations wth the Eaten Nain trac asthe reconquets of Grete, the Eastern Gin, end Gypro {Shovs ls rlsion with Armenia as far the amenain of Toon it 68d is relations with the Norh a ar at he conversion of Vint rofe But, in wang the history ofthe Pains tnd the Bogor have been ied on into the tittath century, and even into the nine {ex [have abo bre led back into the seventh cetary in tcl the ‘ign ofthe yor dtc, aint the sah entry i yg to ‘Teerain the date of the begioning of the Slav Vollerwendeng. ‘Thus thin cay i not an atemp ata comprehensive hry ofthe ‘Byzantine Greek cviletion. Thishas been provided eceaty in he wo part ofthe second edition of volume v of Th Card Madea! iste, Este by Profesor Joan Husey and pubied in gr and sl more fecenly, in the second revied edion, wanated into Enelsh by Froesor Horsey and publibed by Thames and Hien Sn top of BLOW, Haunig’s A soy of Byantne Grenton (Kalargechote to ‘yoma). The ft of hee two works appeared inte fr te o make fae of tin my own present work, but the sxp of his wa aleady i {he hands ofthe Oxford University Pres bebe T received an advance ‘of Profesor Hau’ work through the kindoess of Mr. Thomas NNesrath of Thames and tfudeon, Ihave therfore ony been able to take account of Profesor Hausigs brillant book at the lat moment, bere and there Profesor Dmitsi Obolessy's The Bycanine Commaneelts East Europe 500-453, poblihed im the autumn of 1971, noted in my ‘iblgeaphy, but unfortunately Thad not bea able to read iti inet fake any account oft in the text.