The Escorial Taktikon (other spellings: Escurial Taktikon, Escorial Tacticon, Escurial Tacticon), also known as the Taktikon Oikonomides after Nicolas Oikonomides who first edited it, is a list of Byzantine offices, dignities, and titles composed in Constantinople during the 970s (971–975 or 975–979).[1][2][3] The list contains, among many entries, the commanders (strategoi) of the Byzantine Empire's eastern frontier during the Byzantine-Arab Wars,[4] as well as a series of judicial offices.[5]

References

  1. ^ Kazhdan 1991, "Taktika", p. 2007.
  2. ^ de Souza & France 2008, pp. 144–145: "...a list of offices and dignities known as the Escorial Taktikon written in Constantinople c. 975..."
  3. ^ Magdalino 2003, Paul Stephenson, "The Balkan Frontier in the Year 1000", p. 112: "The Escorial Taktikon (or Taktikon Oikonomides), the modern name given to a precedence list drawn up in Constantinople between 975 and 979..."
  4. ^ de Souza & France 2008, p. 154.
  5. ^ Laiou & Simon 1994, Paul Magdalino, "Justice and Finance in the Byzantine State", p. 104: "It is also worth noting that the Escorial Taktikon of 975 lists a number of judicial offices––thesmophylax, kensor, mystographos, exaktor, hypatos––which must have been created in or soon after the reign of Romanos."

Sources

  • Kazhdan, Alexander Petrovich, ed. (1991). Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. New York, New York and Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.
  • Laiou, Angeliki E.; Simon, Dieter (1994). Law and Society in Byzantium, 9th-12th Centuries. Washington, District of Columbia: Dumbarton Oaks. ISBN 0-88402-222-6.
  • Magdalino, Paul, ed. (2003). Byzantium in the Year 1000. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. ISBN 90-04-12097-1.
  • de Souza, Philip; France, John (2008). War and Peace in Ancient and Medieval History. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81703-5.
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