New sphragistic evidence in addition to the Bulgarian Corpus of Byzantine Seals Cover Image

Новое сфрагистическое свидетельство в дополнение к Корпусу византийских печатей из Болгарии
New sphragistic evidence in addition to the Bulgarian Corpus of Byzantine Seals

Author(s): Nikolai Alekseenko
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Diplomatic history, Political history, Ancient World, Middle Ages
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: History of the Byzantine Empire; Byzantine seals; sigillography; molybdoboulloi; prosopography;

Summary/Abstract: The introduction into scholarship of a new seal of hypatos and domestikos of the Hikanatoi of the West Paul Phylakos will amend the corpus of Byzantine seals from Bulgaria to include the seal of previously unknown person, will get us acquainted with a new member of the Phylakoi family, and will enlarge to some extend our notion of Byzantine military elite, which was closely connected to the Balkans in the age of the Byzantine-Pecheneg wars of the eleventh century; this case clarifies the data of an elite cavalry corps commanded by the domestikos of the Hikanatoi.

  • Issue Year: 5/2018
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 25-32
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian