Basilikoi anthropoi
The term basilikoi anthropoi (
Byzantine documents of the 9th–10th centuries and has two distinct meanings:[1]
- as a generic term, it is used by the manuals on court ceremony like the Kletorologion of 899 to indicate the highest-ranking imperial functionaries
- as a more technical term, it referred to a rather lowly class of imperial servants which possibly constituted a special military detachment.
The latter group included holders of minor dignities like
References
- ^ a b c d Kazhdan 1991, p. 266.
Sources
- ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.