... politics Imperial ideology Roman Army On 1 May 305, ¹ a procession of soldiers, officers and officials departed the city of Nicomedia in Bithynia, led by the emperor Diocletian (C. Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus) and his junior emperor Galerius (C. Galerius Valerius Maximianus). These two...

... Last Judgement William of Tyre Manuel I Komnenos emperor Byzantine empire Komnenian dynasty Imperial ideology Komnenian Byzantium Byzantium’s leadership was keenly aware of the impression its activities and the sheer longevity of its empire made on outsiders, and this was one reason for its...

... by the end of the fourteenth century with a particular focus on the instrumentalization of the intellectual dimension of the imperial rule. It also seeks to integrate late Byzantine imperial visions into the bigger picture of Byzantine imperial ideology and to introduce analytical concepts from rhetorical...