... with compilation, ordering, summarizing, and codifying all types of records. Of particular interest to us are texts such as the Typikon of the Great Church, Book of Ceremonies, and Synaxarium of Constantinople, along with illuminated manuscripts of the Homilies of Gregory...

...Constantinople may be understood as a stage on which rituals were enacted, to ensure an image of peaceful and orderly existence and protection by the saints under imperial rule. This assertion is based on a tabulation of references in the Typikon of the Great Church, Book of Ceremonies...