Administration, Byzantine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23640966 |
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| Authors | Meredith L D Riedel (Duke University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah03001 |
| OpenAlex | W4236255603 |
| ISBN | 9781444338386 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Government administration in the Byzantine world was large, competent, and highly centralized. It was engaged in adjudicating disputes, performing public works, building roads, minting coinage, regulating trade, and maintaining a postal service, transport system, tax regime, and standing army. Fiscal, judicial, ecclesiastical, and military offices were assigned to perform the various administrative duties; curiously, there was no dedicated diplomatic or foreign service to maintain relations with neighboring states. Ambassadors were usually high‐ranking civil servants or clerics, temporarily seconded for specific journeys to foreign courts. From the beginning, the Byzantine state held a monopoly on the production of coinage through the output of a dozen imperial mints and oversaw a highly monetized economy for most of its history.
Administration (probate law) · Ancient history · Business · Byzantine architecture · Civil servants · Dozen · Economics · Economy · Government (linguistics) · Market economy · Monopoly · Political science · Politics · Postal service · Service (business) · State (computer science) · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Law · Public Administration
| Highly cited | No |
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