5-534: The Escorial Taktikon (other spellings: Escurial Taktikon , Escorial Tacticon , Escurial Tacticon ), also known as the Taktikon Oikonomides after Nicolas Oikonomides who first edited it, is a list of Byzantine offices, dignities , and titles composed in Constantinople during the 970s (971–975 or 975–979). The list contains, among many entries, the commanders ( strategoi ) of
10-544: The Byzantine Empire's eastern frontier during the Byzantine-Arab Wars , as well as a series of judicial offices. This Byzantine Empire –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nicolas Oikonomides Nikolaos or Nikos Oikonomides ( Greek : Νικόλαος Οικονομίδης , 14 February 1934 – 31 May 2000) was a Greek Byzantinist , and one of the leading experts in
15-610: The chair of Byzantine history at Montreal University , a post he kept until 1989, when he returned to Athens. He died on 31 May 2000 in Athens, and is survived by his wife and two daughters. Besides the Listes de préséance , his major works include seven volumes of the Archives de l' Athos , a multi-volume work of the documents of the monasteries of Mount Athos began by Paul Lemerle, as well as significant work on study and itemization of
20-665: The field of Byzantine administration . Oikonomides was born in Athens . He studied in the University of Athens from 1951 to 1956, under the tutelage of Byzantinist Dionysios Zakythinos . After obtaining his degree, in 1958 he went to Paris to pursue doctoral studies under Paul Lemerle . His studies in Paris also introduced him to sigillography , and led to the discovery of the so-called Escorial Taktikon or Taktikon Oikonomides . The outcome of his work on Escorial Taktikon and
25-800: The other Taktika (seating lists in Byzantine imperial banquets) was published in 1972, as the Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècle , containing a translation and commentary on the Taktika . Oikonomides returned to Greece, but the establishment of the dictatorial Regime of the Colonels in 1967 forced him to go to exile in Canada along with his wife, the Ottomanist Elizabeth Zachariadou . In July 1969, he accepted
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