Acta et Diplomata Graeca Medii Aevi Sacra et Profana

A six-volume compilation of Greek documents relating to the Byzantine Church and state in the Middle Ages, published 1860–90.

Franz Miklosich (Edited by), Josef Müller (Edited by)

9781108044554, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 March 2012

466 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm, 0.59 kg

This six-volume work, published between 1860 and 1890, contains a selection of documents in Greek which throw light on the history and politics of the Byzantine Empire in the Middle Ages. The editors, Franz Miklosich (1813–91), philosopher, linguist and Slovenian nationalist, and Josef (or Giuseppe) Müller (1823–95), a Greek scholar who also translated many important works by German classical historians into Italian, used as one of their sources the volumes of Greek manuscripts brought back to Vienna by Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522–92), the Flemish diplomat, herbalist, and travel writer who had acted as Imperial Ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Volume 6 (published in 1890) contains texts relating to the great Orthodox Monastery of St John on Patmos, founded in 1088 by St Christodoulos and dedicated to the author of The Book of Revelation, which was written on the island.

Praefatio
Diplomata et acta Monasterii Sancti Ioannis Theologi in insula Patmo e tabulario coenobii
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]