Index
Note: there is no entry for Constantinople as it is prevalent throughout the volume, but specific buildings, locations, events and items relating to Constantinople are indexed.
Aachen
74
Aaron
269
Abgar of Edessa, King
139, 158, 162
Abijam
205
Acrocorinth
114
Adalbert, St
91
Adam
29, 31; and Eve 382–383
Adrianople
122, 126
Adriatic Sea
67–80; North Adriatic economic zone 92
Aegina
111
Aesop’s Fables
423
Africa
86, 134, 144
Agapios, Patriarch of Antioch
58
Agathias
216
Agnellus
84, 86–87, 87–88, 88, 90–91; Liber Pontificalis of 85, 88, 90; monastery of S. Maria ad Blachernas 84
Ahmed I, Sultan, mausoleum of
381, 386–398, 399–401
Akathistos Hymn
149, 165, 177, 178–180; Akathistos Feast 165, 177, 178, 179, 180
Al-Mu’tasim, Abbasid caliph
398
Alexander, metropolitan of Nicaea
203, 237, 238
Alexander, son of Basil I
197, 198, 199, 206, 208
Alexander the Great
18–19; Life of 218
Alexios I Komnenos
46–47, 255–256, 268, 270, 272, 282, 287–288, 293, 294–295, 296, 297, 299, 300, 303, 305, 306, 307, 369–370
Alexios III Angelos
28, 287, 301, 308
Alexios IV Angelos
306, 308
Alexios V Mourtzouphlos
305
Amastrianon
32–33
Amastris
99
Ambrose
323
Amida
96, 98
Amorium
101, 103–104, 145
Anastasia, widow of Constantine IV
52
Anastasia the virgin, St
76, 77
Anastasian Wall
97
Anastasios the Eparch
286, 290, 293, 294
Anastasius I
24, 53, 95, 103
Anastasius Bibliothecarius
184, 188, 191, 193
Ancona, siege of in (1173)
93
Andrew, protos hesychastes
275
Andrew, St, relics of
85, 87
Andronikos I Komnenos
366
Andronikos Komnenos
303
Andronikos Komnenos, brother of Manuel I Komnenos
330
Angeloi
301, 304, 306, 308
Ankara
41, 44, 100, 101, 102, 106, 413, 414
Anna Dalassene
297, 303
Anna Komnene
46–47, 272, 297, 365; Alexiad of 46, 255–256, 268
Annunciation: feast of
171–172, 175, 179, 180, 342, 356; image of 344, 354
Anthologia Marciana
217, 219
Anthony of Novgorod
60, 356
Antioch
69, 77
Antony Stoudites Tripsychos
165
Apalirou Kastro
112, 113, 114
Aphrodisias
44, 97
Apophthegmata of the Desert Fathers
222
Aquileia
72, 73, 77
Arabs
91, 95, 98, 101, 104, 105, 108, 110, 123, 136, 137–164, 165, 166, 169, 171, 172, 174; Arabic list referring to east Roman military commands 132–134
Arcadius
13, 16, 17, 24, 34, 183
Archangel Gabriel
344
Archangels Gabriel and Michael, churches of
196–197, 206
Arkadianai quarter
196, 199, 203, 206
Artabasdos
130
Artemios
60, 64
Asparuch
130
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
416–424
Assumption, feast of
161
astronomy
78–79
Athanasios, St
275, 277, 278; Great Lavra of 275, 277, 278; Rule of 178
Athanasios I, Patriarch
375
Athanasios, protos
276–277
Athens
405, 407, 410
Athos, Mt
274–284
Attaturk, Kemal
414
Augoustaion
17, 24, 33
Augustus
316, 317
Ayyub al-Ansari, tomb of
386
balloons, bursting
359
baptism
357, 359, 360, 363–364, 366, 367; icons as sponsors of 360–361
Barasbakourios, commander of the Opsikion and strategos of Thrace, seal of
129
Bardas, Caesar
241–243, 266
Bardas Phokas
207
Basel Roll
74
Basil I
45, 46, 196–197, 200, 205, 206, 207, 208, 247, 261, 275, 276, 346
Basil II
58, 76, 228, 293, 307, 346, 347
Basil of Caesarea, homilies of
225
Basil the parakoimomenos, eunuch
227, 229, 230, 231, 231–232, 234, 235, 236, 245–246
Basilica of S. Giovanni Evangelista
93; abbacy of 94
Basilica Cistern
24, 423
Basilika
217
bath, Turkish
267
bath-house of Leo VI
33–34
baths
361; Baths of Zeuxippos 33
Battle of Manzikert (1071)
340
beardless youths
277
Beatus, doge of Venice
77
Bellerophon
17
Bessarion, Cardinal
94
Bizye
124
Blachernai
57, 59, 60, 142, 158, 257, 349; bath in quarter of 56; palace 249; church of Theotokos at 51–52, 58, 84, 141, 143, 168, 171, 170, 172, 173, 250, 251, 254, 339, 341, 342, 354, 356; icon of Virgin at 339, 356; veil of Virgin at 341; chapel of Hagia Soros 173, 356; church of St Nicholas at 54; sanctuary of Kosmas and Damianos at 54, 55, 66; treasures at 346
Bobbio
72
Bohemond
268, 271, 272
Boniface I, Pope
182–183, 185
Book of the Prefect
86
bread, glowing
336, 337
brotherhood, ritual
361, 363, 367–368
Bulgars
115, 126, 127, 128, 130, 134, 141, 148, 159, 253; Bulgaria 77
Bursa
386
Caesareia
101
Calabria
113
Cappadocia
112, 114, 418, 422
Cardiff
404
Carolingians
89–90
Castle of the Seven Towers
45
Castorius, geographer
71
Castronuovo di Sicilia
113
Çelebi, Evliya
408
ceremonial
248–273
Chalke
235; Gate 84, 200, 348, 351, 352
Chalkoprateia, church of Theotokos at
76, 172, 250, 341, 342, 344–345, 350, 354, 356, 362; clergy of 347, 353, 354; girdle of Virgin at 341, 346, 356; Hagia Soros at 356; icons of 338–356; burial of Zoe the Macedonian at 352–353
Chalkoun Tetrapylon
349, 350, 351, 354
chamberpot
257
Charlemagne
73, 74, 77, 79
Charles the Bald
191–192
Cheimeuti, enamel icon
340, 341
Cherson
76
Chilandar
275
China
138; Chinese ceramics 393, 384, 396
Chios
110
Chonai
366
Christ the first-born
363
Christodoulos of Patmos
282
Christopher of Mytilene
34
Chronicle of Recent Emperors
218
Chronicle of Zuqnin
148, 150, 159, 163
Chronicon Paschale
54, 58, 315
Chrysogonus, St
76, 77
Chrysotriklinos
250, 257
church of Dormition at Nicaea
355
church of St Michael in the nunnery of the Theotokos Naupaktiotissa at Thebes
362
church of the Pantokrator
424
church of the Theotokos of the Pharos
157, 159, 160, 162, 357–368; icon of the Oikokyra at 357–368
Ciriaco d’Ancona
38
Claudius I
84
Codex Bavarus
88
column of Arcadius
34–36
column of Marcian
423
column of Theodosius I
12
Commentary on the Hexameron, attributed to Eustathios of Antioch
225–226
compilations, terminology of
209–226
confraternities
327, 331, 332, 345, 361–364, 365, 367; Theban confraternity of the Mother of God Naupaktiotissa 362–363
Constans II
98, 103, 108, 113, 124, 126
Constantine I
20, 27, 45, 161, 251, 260, 311, 319, 321, 322, 323, 324, 349, 367; arch of 45
Constantine IV Pogonatos
52, 115, 124, 127, 130, 134
Constantine V
99, 130, 153, 343
Constantine VI
109, 160–161
Constantine VII
33, 75, 76, 115, 124, 129, 162, 199–202, 205, 206, 208, 210, 220, 227, 229, 230, 231, 236, 237–239, 240, 244, 245, 259, 260, 261, 266; compilations of 210, 220; death and funeral of 231–236; military harangues of 266–267; Narration on the Holy Image of Edessa of 315; ‘School’ of 237–247
Constantine VIII
286, 293
Constantine IX Monomachos
274, 280, 294, 301, 354, 355; typikon of 274–284
Constantine X Doukas
355
Constantine XI Palaiologos
422
Constantine, son of Basil I
197
Constantine (Konstantinos) of Rhodes
17, 20, 36; On Constantinople and the Church of the Holy Apostles 36
Constantine Barbaros, house of
203
Constantine Doukas
178, 199–200, 202, 206, 207
Constantine Kephalas, anthology of
215, 216
Constantine Mesarites
366
Constantine protospatharios
237, 238
Constantine Tornikios
306
Constantius I
321
Constantius II
21
Collection of Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals
185–186
Cordoba, delegation from the Umayyad caliph of
258
Corpus Parisinum
223
Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography of
75
Cosmography of Aethicus Ister
72, 74
Council of (680–681)
116–118
Council of (815)
224
Council of Chalcedon (451)
281
Council of Ephesos (431)
169
Council of Nicaea II (787)
139
court
79, 249–250, 258, 266, 273, 299
Crete
112, 113
Cross, the
151–152, 152–153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 160, 161, 162
Crusades/Crusaders
28, 45, 59, 92, 93
cushions, flax-blue
256, 261
Cyclades
68, 112
Cyprus
105
Cyril Phileotes
268–269
Dalgas, Constantinopolitan rebetis
412–413, 414
Dalmatia
76–77
Damian, Archbishop of Ravenna
87
Daniel, Prophet
316, 317, 318, 320; Book of 183
Dante
93; De Monarchia of 93
Daphne, palace
84
Dara
96, 97, 98, 102, 104
Dario Fo
81
David
163, 205; throne of 316
Dazimon, in Armeniakon
264
De administrando imperio
76–77
De cerimoniis (Book of Ceremonies)
153, 157, 164, 171, 229, 230–231, 231–234, 235–236, 245, 249–262, 270–272, 340
De thematibus (Book of Themes)
75–76, 115, 121, 124, 128, 129
Decretum Gratiani
188
Delos
43
demes
87, 253
Demetriades, Theodotos ‘Tetos’
413–414
Demetrios, St, church of in palace
340; enamel icon of Virgin in 340
Develtos
126
diakoniai
361–362
Diegesis Ophelimos
167, 173, 176–178, 179, 180
Diomedes, St, feast of
158
Docheiariou
275
dog, huge black
268–269
Domestikos of the Scholai
287
Dominikos Manios
301, 302, 303–304
Domnius and Anastasius, Sts
76, 77
Donatus, bishop of Zadar
77
Dura-Europos
43, 72
Dylan, Bob
404
Dyrrachion
68, 69, 71, 72, 76
Ecloga
164
Edessa
104
education
237–247
Egypt
123, 128, 144
Eirene
160–161
Eirene Doukaina
280, 299
Eirene, sebastokratorissa
328–337; chapel of Theotokos in house of 328, 331; daughter Maria 330; son John 330
Eleutherios district
201, 202
Eleutherios, higoumenos of monastery of ta Paulinou
57, 58
Eleutherius, Exarch of Ravenna
88
Elias, oikonomos of Hagia Sophia
342; narrative of prodigy at Chalkoprateia 342–344
Elijah, feast of
253
Emporio
110–111, 112
empress
252
‘encyclopaedism’
210–211, 220, 424
Eparch
252, 260, 285–308; in years 1025–1081 288–295; in years 1081–1118 295–297; in years 1118–1182 297–300; in years 1182–1204 300–308
Ephesus
41, 44, 97, 105, 106, 107, 108, 108–109, 114; Gate of Hercules 44
Epi ton deeseon
266
Epiphanios Hagiopolites
74, 75; Proskynetarion of 75
Euchaita
103
Eudocia
51
Eugenius
13, 48
eunuchs
198–199, 202, 207, 262–263, 277, 393; eunuch of Caliph 149
Euphemia, St
85
Euphrosyne, wife of Alexios III Angelos
28
Eustathios of Thessalonike
359
Euthymios, Patriarch
178, 202, 206–207
Euthymios of Stoudios
279–280
Eve
31; and Adam 382–383
Evergetis Synaxarion
178
Excerpta historica constantiniana
220, 224
Ezechias
150, 152, 163
Feast of the Three Sieges
165, 166, 173, 174, 175, 176, 179, 180
Flavio Biondo
94
fortifications
41–42, 44
fortresses, early Byzantine
95–114
Forum Bovis (Forum of the Ox)
33, 254, 423, 424
Forum of Constantine I
11, 16, 35–36, 172, 250, 254, 286
Forum of Theodosius I (Forum of the Bull)
11–24, 47–48, 254
Forum of Trajan
21, 23
Foteini, Hanende
409
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
93
freerunning
418–419
Gainas
34
Galata
159, 404, 408, 419, 420, 423; Galata Tower 418, 419, 420, 422, 423, 424
Galesion, Mt
279, 282, 283
Galla Placidia
83, 91
Garigliano
91
Gate of Attalos
172–173
Gate of St Stephen
201
Genesios
241, 243–244, 247
Geoponica
224
George the Hagiorite
279
George the Monk, Chronicle of
169, 176, 213, 225, 309–325
George the Synkellos, Chronicle of
218–219, 310, 312, 314, 315, 316, 317, 321, 325
George Akropolites
59
George Pachymeres
45
George of Pisidia
149
Germanos, Patriarch
140–141, 143, 144, 156, 159–160, 161, 165–166, 167–168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 176, 341, 345, 348; Homily on the Delivery of Constantinople 140–143, 144, 153–156, 160, 167–168, 176, 341
gigantomachy
35–36
Gnomologium byzantinum
222
Golden Gate
36–41, 43, 44, 45–46, 47, 54, 90, 99, 141, 158, 159, 173, 229, 261
Golden Horn
56, 57, 146, 151, 418, 419, 420, 422
Gongylioi, eunuch brothers Anastasios and Constantine
202, 207
Gortyn
113
Gothoniel
313
Grand Bazaar
422
Gratian
22
Great Palace
46, 162, 164, 249, 256, 273, 341, 360, 367
Greek Anthology
215, 216
Greek Fire
422
Gregory I, Pope
79
Gregory II, Pope
165–166, 170, 348; Letter of to Leo III 348, 351, 352
Gregory asekretis
237
Gregory the cellarer
279
Gregory of Nazianzos
327
Guido Novello da Polenta, ruler of Ravenna
93
Gunther of Pairis
20
Hadrian
23, 48, 183
Hadrian I, Pope
88
Hagia Sophia (Great Church)
150, 151, 157, 159, 161, 162, 164, 172, 235, 250, 251, 252, 255, 273, 343, 349, 402, 405, 420, 421, 422, 423; a deacon of 63; ambo of 349; image of Virgin in conch of 339; number of clergy 342; old priest of 55–56, 61; psaltai from 257; well of 345
hagiogeography
75, 76, 77
Hagiosoritissa icon of Virgin
341
Hall of the Nineteen Couches
234, 235, 250; Game of the Nineteen Beds 258
Harun Ibn Yahya
69
Hatice Turhan Sultan, Queen Mother, tomb of
399
Hebdomon
261
Helena, mother of Constantine
323
Helena Lekapene
200, 201, 205, 208, 234; children of 234; daughters of 205
Hellas
115, 133, 135
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
92
Heraclius
45, 46, 54, 56, 95, 97–98, 139, 141, 157, 324, 349–350
Hercules/Herakles
14–16, 18, 21, 23, 25–49; at the Crossroads 26; drunken 39, 40; knot of 43–44; Pillars of 15, 16, 23
Hexabiblos of Constantine Harmenopoulos
217
Hiereia
255, 261
Hierokles, Synekdemos of
75
Hippodrome
32, 33, 250, 251, 255, 258, 272, 273, 388, 392, 420, 421, 424; statues of Hercules in 27–28, 29, 32
Holy Apostles, church of
36, 235, 250, 251, 254; psaltai from 257
Holy Keramidion
360, 367
Homer
405; Iliad 424
Honorius
13, 16, 23, 182–183, 184, 185–186
Hosios Loukas, monastery of
355; mosaic of Christ Antiphonetes in church of 355
Hugh Eteriano
358, 359
hymn Angelos Protostates
165, 166, 169–172, 173, 174; preface of Latin translation of 169–172
Ibn Battuta
399
icon of Christ Antiphonetes
347–354, 354–356; Beneficial for the Soul Narrative about 347–354; mosaics of Christ Antiphonetes 355; image of on signed folleis of Nikephoros III Botaneiates 355
icon of Maria Romaia
344–347, 354, 362; Edifying Narrative about 344–347, 354; Hypomnema on Maria Romaia 346, 347
icon of the Oikokyra
357–368
Iconium
101
Iconoclasm
139, 131, 154–155, 163, 171, 322, 323, 345, 349
icons, miraculous
156–157, 347; the acheiropoietos image of Christ in Kamoulianai 157; acheiropoieton image of Virgin at church of Lydda/Diopolis 345; icon of Christ from Rome 345; icon of the Theotokos of the monastery of women of Melitene (the monastery of the Theotokos at Miasena) 157
Ignatios, Patriarch
156
imperial military expeditions, three treatises on
260–265
incense
380, 396–399; incense burners 380–381, 392–399
India
70, 71
Ioane Tokhabi, Georgian monk
338, 340–341; hexaptych menologium of 338
Ireland
70, 71
Isaac I Komnenos
253, 271
Isaac II Angelos
301
Isaac Komnenos, sebastokrator
280, 297
Isaiah
337
Isaiah, Patriarch
371
Isaurians
137–164
Isidore of Seville
74
Islam, Mohammed’s creation of
322, 323
“Istanbul (not Constantinople)”, song
413–414
Italy
82, 89–90, 91, 92, 93
Jeroboam
202, 204–205
Jerome
183–184
Jerusalem
51, 75, 311, 316, 318, 324, 385, 417; destruction of temple of 316, 317, 318–321; rebuilding of temple of 323
Jew
345, 349; Jews 309–325, 350
John, St
108–109
John I Tzimiskes
177, 229–230, 274, 280; typikon (Tragos) of 274–284
John II Komnenos
248, 285, 287, 288, 298–299, 305, 358
John II, Patriarch
57
John VII, Patriarch, the Grammarian
242
John XIII Glykys, Patriarch
372
John V, Pope
116–117
John X, Pope
91–92
John, abbot from Ravenna
87–88
John Axouch
287
John the Baptist
60, 255; head of 255; church of in Oxeia 60, 64
John the Boatswain
111
John Chrysostom
255, 319, 320; Against the Jews 319
John the ‘Fat’ Komnenos
363
John Kantakouzenos
330
John Kastamonites
301
John Kolobos, monastery of at Hierissos
275
John Komnenos, nephew of Manuel I Komnenos
330; siblings of 330
John Kourkouas
229
John Palaiologos Angelos Branas
59
John Roger-Dalassenos, Caesar
303
John Scottus Eriugena
190–193
Joseph Bringas, eunuch
230, 231, 236, 246
Joseph the Hymnographer
175
Josephus
317, 318, 319
Joshua
17, 18
Judge of the Velum
293, 308
Judge of the Hippodrome
293
Julian
323
Julius Caesar
260
Justin I
342
Justin II
97, 321, 342, 343; column of 16
Justinian I
17, 24, 53, 54, 56, 58, 69, 75, 81, 85, 93, 95, 96, 101, 105, 109, 169, 229, 261, 321, 341, 342
Justinian II
51, 58, 87, 120, 122, 127, 130, 131, 132, 134, 135, 136, 145, 146; iussio of 116–117, 119, 121, 128, 133, 135, 136; head of 88
Kainourgion
46
Kaisareia, in Charsianon
264
kaiserkritik
330–331
Kalogeros
112
Kallistos I, Patriarch
371
Kamateros family
299
Kedrenos, chronicle of
309–325
Khakhuli monastery of Tao-Klarjeti, icon of Virgin at
340
Khosrow, Persian king
389
Kibyrrhaiotai, theme of
109
Kontostephanos family
299
Koron
104, 110
Kosmas and Damianos, Sts, the Anargyroi
50–66; church of sanctuary (the Kosmidion) of miracles of 50–66; cult of 53; monastery of 60, 66, 279; relics of 60
Kosmas Tzintziloukes
279–280, 280–281, 283
Koula Antonopoulou, Kyria
410
Kourkouas family
229–230
Koutloumousiou
275
Krum, Khan
160, 174
Langobardia
76
Lausanne Treaty
411
Lawrence, martyr
76
Lazaros of Mt Galesion, St
279
Le Brun, Corneille
408–409
Leiden Aratea
79
Leigh Fermor, Patrick
404, 412, 414–415
Lekapenos family
158–159, 162, 200–204, 205, 206, 208, 230
Leo I
229, 341
Leo III
95, 99, 120, 122, 137, 138, 140, 143, 144, 145–153, 156, 159, 159–160, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 166, 171, 172, 313, 348
Leo VI
33, 197, 197–199, 200, 202, 205, 206, 207, 208, 210, 235, 255, 276, 340, 364
Leo Choirosphaktes
33–34
Leo the Deacon
46, 228–229
Leo Katakylas
260
Leo the Mathematician
241–244
Leo Phokas
288
Leo of Synada
338
Leo Tuscus
357–368; On the Heresies and Prevarications of the Greeks of 357–368
Leontios
52, 53
Leontios, strategos of Hellas
135
leprosy
322
Letter of the Three Patriarchs
345, 346
Lewond, Historical Discourse of
149–156, 160, 162, 163, 164
Life of Basil
197, 227, 244, 245
Life of Basil the Younger
195–208
Life of John the Merciful
349
Life of John and Euthymios, hegoumenoi of Iviron
279
Life of Stephen the Younger
348
Life of Theodota of Amida
102
lion, Nemean
29, 43, 44
Liutprand of Cremona, Mission to Constantinople of
423
Loci Communes, of Pseudo-Maximus the Confessor
212, 213, 223
Logothete Chronicle
227–228, 229, 231, 237–247
Lombards
79, 89
Louis the German
192
Louis the Pious
360
Loulon
104, 110
Luke, St
346, 356
Macedonian Dynasty
195–208, 230
Macneice, Louis
81
Magnaura
250, 257; School of 241–244
Magnus Maximus
13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22
Maiden Tower (Leander’s Tower)
423
Malalas
312, 314
Mamas, St, palace of
261
Manasses, Synopsis chronike of
179
Mandylion of Edessa
315–316, 360, 367; feast of 158–159, 162
Manganeios Prodromos
269, 326–337; Poem 71 of 326–337
Manuel I Komnenos
93, 285, 288, 299, 304, 307, 330, 331, 358, 360, 366
Manuel II Palaiologos
284
Manuel Chrysoloras
38, 39
Manuel Egardios, will of
376
Manuel the protospatharios
228, 247
Marcian
281; column of 423
Marcian, St
303, 305
Marinus, magister militum per Thracias
123
Markianoupolis
122
Maslama, brother of Caliph Sulayman
137, 139, 145, 146, 148, 150–151, 152, 153, 154, 159, 161
Matthaios I, Patriarch
370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 377
Maurice
352
Maurus, deacon from Ravenna
90
Maximian, Archbishop of Ravenna
85, 86–87
Maximos, deacon
57
Maximos Planoudes
211–212, 217
Mecca
385
Mehmed the Conqueror, tomb of
386
Meleager of Gadara, Garland of
216
Melissinos, bishop
409
Menander, The Flute Girl of
423
Menas, doctor
55
Menas, Patriarch
57
Menologion of Basil II
157–158, 160, 177, 255
Mesembria
122, 124, 126, 131
Metaphrastic Menologion
173, 177, 178
Metaxas, Ioannis
414
Methodios, Patriarch
161, 345, 346
Michael, St, sanctuary of in quarter of Promotos
54
Michael II
360
Michael III
100, 182, 185–186, 196–197, 206, 266, 347
Michael IV
54, 56, 58–59, 60, 66
Michael V
286, 293
Michael VI
294
Michael VII Doukas
293–294
Michael VIII Palaiologos
45, 59, 305; sister of 45
Michael Attaleiates
46, 286
Michael Glykas
407
Michael Haploucheir, dikaiophylax, seal of
366
Michael Haploucheir, judge, seal of
365–366
Michael Keroularios, Patriarch
359
Michael Pantechnes, doctor
299
Michael Psellos
58–59, 253, 295, 351–352, 354
Miletus
41, 103, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109
Milion
254
Mitsakis, Yorgos
414
Mokios, St, church of
255
monastery of St Catherine of Sinai
338
monastery of Chora
170
monastery of Daniel, Prophet
60
monastery of Elegmoi
204
monastery of St Gall
169; plan of 73
monastery of Iviron
278–279, 283
monastery of Kosmosoteira, near Bera
280
monastery of St Lazaros
199, 206
monastery of Sergios and Bacchos
257
monastery of Theotokos Evergetis
276, 278, 283; typikon of 277–278, 279, 282, 283
monastery of Theotokos Kecharitomene
280
monasticism
274–284
Monemvasia
111, 114, 376
Monostichoi of Menander
222
Mopsuestia, bronze gates of
41
Morritt, John, of Rokeby
409
Moses
143, 150, 154, 172, 312–313; rod of 143, 150, 154
mountains, holy
282–283
Muhammad, Prophet
381, 386; tomb of in Medina 385
Murad II, Sultan, will of
384–386
Mustafa Agha, Chief of the Black Eunuchs of the Imperial Palace
393
Myrelaion
201, 206
Naxos
112–113, 114
Nea, church
216–217, 251, 257; school of 216
Neos Oikos
199, 206
Nestorius
324
New York
407, 410, 413
Nicaea
99–100; Empire of 305
Nicholas, St
306
Nicholas, Patriarch
178, 199–200, 206
Nicholas I, Pope
182, 184, 185–186, 187, 188, 191
Nicholas Mesarites
363, 364, 365, 366, 367; seal of 364, 365, 366
Nikephoros I
77, 100, 350
Nikephoros II Phokas
41, 46, 207, 228, 228–229, 229–230, 231, 236, 239–240, 241, 245, 247, 259, 288
Nikephoros III Botaneiates
46, 59, 294, 355
Nikephoros, Patriarch
51, 58, 144, 145, 147, 163; Short History of 51, 144, 145
Nikephoros Bryennios
306
Nikephoros, commander of Thracian troops, son of magistros Theophanes Monotes
129–130
Nikephoros Erotikos, patrikios
237, 238
Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos
179
Nikephoros Komnenos
305–306
Nikephoros Melissenos
306
Niketas Choniates
28, 301, 363; seal of 366
Nikon Metanoeite
355
Nilus of Rossano, St
91
Normans of Sicily
363
Notitia Dignitatum
118, 119
Odessos
122
Oneirokritikon
267
Opsikion
118, 121, 124, 125–126, 127, 129, 130, 134–135, 136
Orosius
71, 72, 74
Orphanotrophos
253
Osman II, Sultan
393; Havva, wet-nurse of 393
Otto III
91, 92
Ottomans
38, 39, 383, 413, 417
Oxford
404, 405
Palace of Aretai
34
Palace of Marina
33
Palaiologan Dynasty
417, 422
Palatine Anthology
215, 216, 219
Palladas
49
Pancratius, St
76
Pandects of Antiochos
224
Panegyrici Latini
22
Paradise
381–383, 389, 390, 398, 402, 403
Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai
31
Paros
111
Passion of the 60 Martyrs of Jerusalem
148–149, 163
Patara
106, 107–108, 109
Patria of Constantinople
13, 17, 23, 31–32, 38, 51, 53, 350
Patriarch of Constantinople
171, 252, 254–255
Patriarchate of Constantinople, Register of
369–377
Paul, St
363
Paul Evergetinos
277–278, 283; successor Timothy 278
Paul, hegoumenos of Xeropotamou
276–277
Paulina
52, 53
Paulinos
51
Pege, church of the Virgin at
141–142, 143, 255
Perberis
124
Pergamon/Pergamum
41, 102, 103, 109
Peristeris, Aristeides
409; son Spyros 410, 411
Peter the Patrician
229
Peter and Paul, Sts
190
Peutinger map
71–72, 73, 74
Pharos
257
Philip of Thessalonike
216
Philippikos Bardanes
51, 52
Philocalia, of Origen
222
Photios
91, 180, 182, 215, 223, 359; Bibliotheca of 226; Opusculum contra Francos attributed to 359
Pierre Gilles
38
Piraeus
411
Placitum of Rižana
88
pogrom, anti-Greek (1955)
414
Porphyra, the imperial birthing chamber
365
Priapus
39, 40
Priscus Attalus
183
Procopius: Buildings
56, 58, 75, 96, 105; Secret History 81
Prostasia of Mt Kellion
282
Protos of Mt Ganos, seal of
282
Psamathia, district of Constantinople
407
Pseudo-Clement of Rome
327
Pseudo-Symeon, chronicle of
310–325
Ptolemaic cosmos, images of
78
quaestor exercitus
108
Ravenna
67, 69, 70, 71, 72, 79, 81–94; Exarch of 79, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88; San Vitale, church of 81, 83; archbishops of 88
Ravenna Cosmographer
69–74, 75, 79, 86
rebetika
404–415
reciters
399–401
Rehoboam
205
relics
256; of the Passion 360, 365; of True Cross 263; trade in 192
Resafa
96
Rhabdion
104
Rhodes
106, 108, 109, 114
Robert of Clari
45
Roe, Sir Thomas, British ambassador in Constantinople
39, 41
Romanos I Lekapenos
162, 200–204, 205, 206, 208, 227, 230, 237, 239, 245, 276, 293; sons Christopher, Stephen and Constantine 200, 201; grandson Michael 200, 201; two daughters of 201, 202
Romanos II
203–205, 206, 228, 230, 231, 240, 261, 266
Romanos III Argyros
293, 352
Romanos Kourkouas
229–230
Romanos the Melode, tomb of
327, 356
Rome
27, 45, 48, 72, 77, 79, 85, 86, 88, 88–89, 90, 91, 93, 181–194, 344, 345, 362, 417
Romuald, monastic reforms of
91
Rus’
174, 180, 205, 207
Sacra Parallela, of John of Damascus
220, 222, 223, 224
Samonas, eunuch
198–199, 203, 206, 208
Samosata
102
Sampson
313
Sanjar, Seljuk Sultan, tomb of at Merv
383
Sardinia
133, 134
Sardis
41, 102, 103, 109
Saronites
202–205, 206; Romanos Saronites 203–204
Sasanians
96, 97, 105
Sayf al-Dawlah
266
Scriptor incertus de Leone Armenio
160, 218
seals
129, 130, 131–132, 135, 282, 286–308, 364, 365–366
sebastokratorissa, tent of
269, 271
Selime Kale
114
Selymbria
124
Senate
252–253, 316, 354; Senate House 35–36
Seraphim
337
Sergios, Patriarch
157, 179
Sergius and Bacchus, Sts, church of
83, 423
Sermones de Moribus
225
Sicily
76, 86, 113–114, 133, 134, 305
Side
106, 108, 109
siege of Constantinople in (626)
54, 140, 141, 142, 143, 156, 157, 167–168, 169, 172, 174, 176, 177, 179, 341
siege of Constantinople in (668)
140, 174, 176
siege of Constantinople in (717–718)
137–164, 165–180
Sirmium
77
Skarvelis, Kostas
411, 414
Sklaviniai
126, 135
Skylitzes
58, 229, 266, 309–310, 314, 317, 323, 325
Smaragdus, Exarch of Ravenna
97
Smyrna
98, 114, 405–406, 409, 410
Solomon
205, 312–313, 389
Sophia, wife of Christopher Lekapenos
201
Souda/Suda
32, 211, 226
Sozopol
305
Spanoudi, Sophia
411, 414
Sparta
355
Stephanos of Byzantium, Ethnika of
75
Stephen, son of Basil I, Patriarch
197, 207
Stephen of Novgorod
60
Stobaeus
213; Anthologium of John of Stobi 215, 220, 222, 224
Strategion
251
Strymon, kleisoura of
131, 134, 136
Sulayman, Caliph
137, 144, 146, 170, 159, 160, 161
Süleyman the Magnificent, Sultan
378–379, 389–390; tomb of 396
Sykes, bath of
55
Sylvster, Pope
322–323; Vita Silvestri 322–323
Symeon of Bulgaria
174, 178
Symeon the Logothete
227, 228, 238, 246, 247
Symeon Metaphrastes
176, 177, 178, 217
Symmachus, Pope
53
Synaxarion of Constantinople
156–159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 167, 174, 176, 178, 338
Synod of Worms in (868)
192
Syrakousios, Eparch
304
Taktika, military
265–266, 267
Taktikon Escorial
307
Tarasios, Patriarch
163, 342, 343, 344
Taron
253
Tarsos
69; ambassadors from 257–258
Tatavla
409
Templars, in Assassin’s Creed
416, 417, 423
tents
248, 251, 253, 257, 258, 261, 263, 265, 266, 267, 267–268, 268–269, 271, 272, 273; tent poems 269, 270
Tetrarchy
101
Thebes
362
Themistios
21–22
Theoderic, Ostrogothic king
83, 91
Theodora, wife of Justinian I
81
Theodora, wife of Theophilos and mother of Michael III
345, 346, 352
Theodora, wife of Romanos Lekapenos
200–201, 202
Theodora the Macedonian
294
Theodora Synadene
59
Theodore II Laskaris
165
Theodore II Palaiologos, Despot of Mystras
375–376
Theodore, St, palace chapel of
257
Theodore Balsamon
326, 327, 328, 329, 332, 364
Theodore, commander of the Opsikion and hypostrategos of Thrace
124
Theodore of Koloneia
124
Theodore Skoutariotes
179
Theodore the Stoudite
149, 360–361
Theodore the Stratelates
98
Theodore Synkellos, homily on siege of
626, 176
Theodore the Tiro, St
103
Theodosian Dynasty
11–24, 83, 94
Theodosios III
145, 148, 171
Theodosios, brother of Constans II
124
Theodosios the Grammarian
144, 166
Theodosius I
11–24, 37, 38, 45, 47–48, 323
Theodosius II
51
Theophanes, Chronicle of
51, 52, 58, 144–145, 145–147, 148, 149, 151, 163, 218, 310, 315, 321–325, 348, 350
Theophanes Continuatus
58, 227–236, 237–237
Theophano, mother of Otto III
91
Theophilos
261, 352
Theophilos of Edessa
147
Theophilos Erotikos, eparch
237, 238
Theophilos Kourkouas
229
Theophylact, Patriarch
158–159, 162, 201–202, 203, 206–207
Theophylact of Ochrid
269
Theotokos
53, 56, 66, 141, 142, 143, 146, 147, 149, 153, 154–156, 157, 158, 159, 162, 166, 167, 168, 170, 172, 173, 174, 177, 178, 179, 180, 311, 327, 329, 330, 331, 332, 335–337, 338–356, 357–368; church of in the district of ta tou Kyrou 327, 327–328, 331, 364; cult of 250; as godmother 357, 360, 364, 367; icons of 157, 159, 160, 161, 177, 339, 340, 342–344, 345, 346, 356, 357–368; image of Mother of God Orans on coin of Leo VI 364; image of on seals 303, 306, 364, 365–366; images of in hexaptych menologium 339–340, 341; kanon of Joseph the Hymnographer on 175; pallium of 170; poems of Manganeios Prodromos to 328, 331, 332, 333–337; prayer to 177–178; shrine of (called Jerusalem) near Golden Gate 158, 173
Theotokos Hodegetria
328; icon of 328, 339, 345, 347, 354; Hodegetria procession 345, 346, 362; and church in Hodegon monastery 328–329, 339, 346–347, 362
Thermae of Honorius at Galata
55
Thessalonike/Thessaloniki
68, 69, 72, 73, 104, 122, 126, 131, 363, 414
Thomas Haploucheir
366
Thomas the Slav
54, 58, 174, 177
Thrace
115–136
Thrakesion
115–136
Throne of Solomon
250, 257
Tiberios, son of Justinian II
51–52, 58
Tiberius
316
Tiger Bay
404
Tipoukeitos
217
Titus
311, 316, 317, 318–321
tombs, Ottoman
378–403
Topkapi Palace
397, 422, 423
Topoi, locality
199
Tornikios family
301, 306
Trajan
21–23, 48; column of 19–20, 21, 48
Travels of Marco Polo
424
Treaty of Devol
268, 272
Triodion (Lenten hymnbook)
169, 173, 175, 179
Triumph of Orthodoxy
161, 164, 362
triumphs
45, 177, 261
Tryphon, St
76
typika
274–284
Typikon of the Great Church
171, 172–175, 179, 180, 249, 250, 251, 252
Typikon of the monastery of Bebaia Elpis
59
Umar II, Caliph
137, 139, 148, 163
Valens
323; aqueduct of 423, 424
Valentinian II
17
Valentinian III
83, 84, 281
Vasari
94
Venice
77, 89, 92, 93, 305, 417
Venizelos, Eleftherios
414
Verina
341, 342
Versus Romae
188–194
Vesuvius, eruption of
321
Via Egnatia
68, 69
Victor scholastikos
64
Viokastro
111
Visigoths
183
Wales
405
Wibert, Archbishop of Ravenna (and antipope Clement III)
92
Xanthos
109
Yahya of Antioch
58
Yarmuk, Battle of
98
Yeats, W.B.
81–82
Zadar
77
Zeno
103, 342
Zoe Karbonopsina
178, 199, 207
Zoe the Macedonian
286, 293, 351, 354, 355; and icon of Christ Antiphonetes 351–354; burial at Chalkoprateia 352–353; patronage of Hosios Loukas 355
Zoste patrikia
252