The Taktikon Uspensky or Uspenskij is the conventional name of a mid-9th century Greek list of the civil, military and ecclesiastical offices of the Byzantine Empire and their precedence at the imperial court. Nicolas Oikonomides has dated it to 842/843,[1] making it the first of a series of such documents (taktika) extant from the 9th and 10th centuries.[2] The document is named after the Russian Byzantinist Fyodor Uspensky, who discovered it in the late 19th century in a 12th/13th-century manuscript (codex Hierosolymitanus gr. 39) in the library of the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which also contained a portion of the Kletorologion of Philotheos, a later taktikon.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Oikonomidès 1972, pp. 41ff..
- ^ Kazhdan 1991, p. 2007.
- ^ Bury 1911, pp. 10, 12.
Sources[edit]
- Bury, J. B. (1911). The Imperial Administrative System of the Ninth Century – With a Revised Text of the Kletorologion of Philotheos. London: Oxford University Press. OCLC 1046639111.
- Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
- Oikonomidès, Nicolas (1972). Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (in French). Paris: Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
Further reading[edit]
- Russian edition, by F. Uspensky: "Византийская табель о рангах" [Byzantine table of ranks]. Известия Русского Археологического Института в Константинополе. 3: 98–137. 1898.
- French edition, by N. Oikonomides: Oikonomidès, Nicolas (1972). Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles. Paris: Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique. pp. 47–63.