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In his De Administrando Imperio manual written for his son and successor, Romanus II, he minces no words about his late father-in-law: " the lord Romanus the Emperor was an idiot and an illiterate man, neither bred in the high imperial manner, nor following Roman custom from the beginning, nor of imperial or noble descent, and therefore the more rude and authoritarian in doing most things ... for his beliefs were uncouth, obstinate, ignorant of what is good, and unwilling to adhere to what is right and proper.
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According to the work De Administrando Imperio written by the 10th-century Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, the Croats had arrived in what is today Croatia in the early 7th century, however that claim is disputed and competing hypotheses date the event between the 6th and the 9th centuries.
The Emperor Constantine Porphyrogennetos ( r. 945 – 959 ), in his book De Administrando Imperio, admonishes his son and heir, Romanos II ( r. 959 – 963 ), to never reveal the secrets of its construction, as it was " shown and revealed by an angel to the great and holy first Christian emperor Constantine " and that the angel bound him " not to prepare this fire but for Christians, and only in the imperial city ".
* Constantine VII's De Administrando Imperio, and
Constantine Porphyrogenitus records in his work De Administrando Imperio that the Khazars asked the Emperor Teophilos to have the fortress of Sarkel built for them.
The Croats, who are mentioned in De Administrando as living adjacent to the Serbs, have a distinction of predominant sphere of influence ; Croats are Roman Catholic, and are historically linked with the Holy Roman Empire from the early stage ( Western Roman Empire ); Italy, Austria and Hungary.
In 822, the Serbs are mentioned as " inhabiting the larger part of Dalmatia " ( Serbian lands ), and Emperor Constantine VII ( r. 913 – 959 ) writes in his work " De Administrando Imperio " about the Serbs, mentioning the White Serbs that " migrated from Βοϊκι " and formed a principality, as well as an early chronological list of Serbian monarchs starting from the 7th century.
Emperor Constantine VII ( r. 913 – 959 ) writes in his work " De Administrando Imperio " about the Serbs, mentioning the White Serbs that " migrated from Βοϊκι " and formed a principality, as well as an early chronological list of Serbian monarchs starting from the 7th century.
* Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio, edited by Gy.
On this occasion Christopher received precedence in rank over his brother-in-law Constantine VII, something which compounded the latter's resentment towards the Lekapenoi, the Bulgarians, and imperial marriages to outsiders ( as documented in his composition De Administrando Imperio ).
In De Administrando Imperio ( c. 950 ) he described Smolensk as a key station on the trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks.
This process, resulting in unified control over both military and civil affairs of each theme by its strategos, was complete by the mid-9th century, and is the " classical " thematic model mentioned in such works as the Klētorologion and the De Administrando Imperio.
According to the work De Administrando Imperio written by the 10th century Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, the Croats had arrived in the early 7th century in what is now Croatia, although this is disputed and competing hypotheses date the event between the 6th and the 9th centuries.
The De Administrando Imperio describes his realm: the shores of the Adriatic Sea, the Sava river and the Morava valley as well as today's northern Albania.
Constantine VII is best known for his four books, De Administrando Imperio, De Ceremoniis, De Thematibus and Vita Basilii.
He wrote, or had commissioned, the works De Ceremoniis (" On Ceremonies "), describing the kinds of court ceremonies ( also described later in a more negative light by Liutprand of Cremona ); De Administrando Imperio (" On the Administration of the Empire "), giving advice on running the Empire internally and on fighting external enemies ; and a history of the Empire covering events following the death of the chronographer Theophanes the Confessor in 817.
The information of the Vlastimirović dynasty ends with De Administrando Imperio ( fl.
De Administrando Imperio describes how Byzantine Emperor Heraclius ( r. 610-641 ) gave the Serbs a territory in the Western Balkans during the first half of the 7th century.
De Administrando Imperio (" On the Governance of the Empire ") is the Latin title of a Greek work written by the 10th-century Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine VII.
De Administrando Imperio was written between 948 and 952.
Because De Administrando Imperio is one of the rare primary sources describing the medieval history of the Balkans, its text has been extensively analyzed by historians, sometimes concentrating on just a few sentences.
Bury in 1906, Gavro Manojlović in 1910, and Ljudmil Hauptmann in 1931 through 1942 published comprehensive analyses of the entirety of De Administrando Imperio which showed that it was written as a set of files each concentrating on different topics, dating from various time periods, that were subsequently redacted several times, causing the interpretation of the resulting text to vary significantly.
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* De administrando Imperio chapters 29 – 36 at the Internet Archive
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The first division into major and minor arts dates back to Leon Battista Alberti's works ( De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura ), focusing the importance of intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills ( even if in other forms of art there was a project behind ).
* Paolo Cortese publishes De Cardinalatu, a manual for cardinals, including advice on palatial architecture – which inspires Thomas Wolsey in his construction work at Hampton Court Palace.
The historian Jonathan Foyle has suggested that it is likely that Wolsey had been inspired by Paolo Cortese's De Cardinalatu, a manual for cardinals that included advice on palatial architecture, published in 1510.
* His manual on running a farm ( De Agri Cultura or " On Farming ") is his only work that survives completely.
** De re militari, a military manual
He was interested in the reform of preaching as shown in his De Arte Predicandi ( 1503 )— a book which became a sort of preacher's manual ; but above all as a scholar he was eager that the Bible should be better known, and could not tie himself to the authority of the Vulgate.
He also published an edition of George Buchanan's works, continued Graevius's major work, Thesaurus Antiquitatum et Historiarum Italiae, and wrote a treatise De Vectigalibus Populi Romani ( 1694 ) and a short manual of Roman antiquities, Antiquitatum Romanarum Brevis Descriptio ( 1711 ).
Heavily used in its own time, De Re Militari became a popular manual on warfare in the Middle Ages, especially between 9th and 16th centuries, even if some of the information was unsuitable to later times and circumstances.
De Re Militari came to the forefront in the late Carolingian period through Hrabanus Maurus ( d. 856 ), who used the text for his own manual De Procincta Romaniae Militiae, composed for Lothair II of Lotharingia ( r. 855-869 ).
Of all these the De naturis rerum, a sort of manual of the scientific knowledge of the 12th century, is by far the most important: the magnet passage referred to above is in book ii.
* Henry De la Beche's A geological manual ( Philadelphia, 1832 ).
He is best known for his manual on metalworking, De la pirotechnia, published posthumously in 1540.
His dance manual, De arte saltandi et choreas ducendi, was the first to survive into the modern era.
Evidence of continuing liturgical and pastoral roles is provided by Constantine Porphyrogenitus ' 10th century manual of ceremonies ( De Ceremoniis ), which refers to a special area for deaconesses in the Hagia Sophia.
Inasmuch as this contains only reflections on preaching, St. Augustine's " De doctrinâ Christianâ " might be regarded as the first manual on the subject ; its first three books deal with collecting the materials for preaching, " modus inveniendi quæ intelligenda sunt ", and the last with the presentation thereof, " modus proferendi quæ intellecta sunt ".
Some of the mining scenes were inspired by engravings from the German mining manual De re metallica, although it dates from two centuries after the time of those scenes.
De adulteriis, and other works, the shortest of these being Αστυνόμικοσ which was a manual on the duties for commissioner's of streets and bridges.
Like the ill-fated De Lorean DMC-12, which used the same PRV powertrain, the engine was mounted longitudinally in the rear, driving forward to the wheels through a manual 5-speed gearbox.
" The fifteen lessons of the old whore were based on Cipriano Suarez's De arte rhetorica, the manual used in Jesuit schools.
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