Open AccessByzantine Rank Hierarchy in the 9th–11th Centuries
Author(s) -
Nikolay Kanev
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
studia ceranea
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2449-8378
pISSN - 2084-140X
DOI - 10.18778/2084-140x.08.09
Subject(s) - byzantine architecture , hierarchy , rank (graph theory) , empire , construct (python library) , period (music) , ancient history , history , computer science , mathematics , art , combinatorics , law , political science , aesthetics , programming language
The aim of the article is to present the Byzantine secular rank hierarchy of the 9th–11th centuries. During the above-mentioned period of time Byzantium knew not one but several distinct, relatively independent official hierarchical systems. All of them, however, were mutually interconnected to varying degrees and thus formed a single, pan-imperial hierarchical construct, expressed through the so-called system of palace precedence of ranks in the empire. It is this global and more general paradigm that reflects the Byzantine hierarchical model of the 9th–11th centuries; consequently, it seems fitting to refer to it as the rank hierarchy of the classical Middle Byzantine period, in the era preceding the reforms of Alexios I Komnenos (1081–1118).