INDEX
It is not easy to guess to what heading a reader seeking a reference will
naturally turn, but it is hoped that this index will furnish an adequate
guide to the contents of the book.

Abbasid Empire, xxiv, 15, 20, 27, 304,
315; finances, 85; translations from
Greek, 316,
Abdar-Rahman III, Spanish Caliph,
312.
Acacius, Patriarch of Constantinople,
schism of, 100, 120.
Acominatus, Michael (Archbishop of
Athens), letters of, 237, 265-6.
Acropolites, George, as lecturer, 218.
Administrative system, 280 sqq., cen-
tralization in, 2865 civil officials, 287
sqq.
Adrian II, Pope, and the mission to
Moravia, 349.
Africa, Justinian's recoaquest of, 75
Heraclius sails from, 10; Arab con-
quest of, 12.
Agathias, epigrams, 242.
Agriculture, 55 sqq.; condition of, 59-
60.
Akindynus, 43.
Akoimetoi, the, 144-5.
Akritai) 299 (and see Digenes Akritas).
Albania, 335.
Aleppo, 22, 24.
Alexandria, 4-5, 10, 12; Patriarchs of,
96 sqq. {find see Art, Byzantine).
Alexandria, University of, 213; school
of medicine, 213, 216.
Alexius I Comnenus, 28 sqq., 207, 208,
219, 229, 249; restores the fleet, 305;
persecutes the Bogomils, 353.
Aliens in Constantinople, 32, 67; Italian
communities as cause of the Empire's
ruin, 67.
Amorian dynasty, 17-18.
Anaplus, Daniel the Stylite at, 145.
Anastasius I, his oath on accession, 277-8.
Andrew, Bishop of Crete, hymns, 242.
Andrew, St., as first bishop of Byzan-
tium, 128.
Andronicus I Comnenus, 32.
Andronicus Palaeologus, Novel xxviii
of, 83.
Angeli, 32, 33, 358, 3605 decline of the
Empire under the, 705 Isaac Angelus
and tide of Basileus, 273.

Anna Comnena, 204, 205, 206-7, 208,
209, 210, 219, 225, 229; the Alexiad)
232; style of, 256, 257-8.
Antae, 338, 340.
Anthemius, architect of St. Sophia, 166,
174.
Antioch, 10, 22, 24, 29, 30, 204, 209,
211, 213, 222, 223; theology of, 90.
Antony, St., *the first monk', 136-7,
222-3, ^236.
Aphthartodocetism, 101-2.
Apology, the, of Aristeides, 238.
Arabia before Muhammad, 313-14.
Arabs, 308-20passim (see Islam); inva-
sions of Empire by, xxiv, 308; acquire
a fleet, 309; attacks on Constantinople,
12,	14, 15, 309-10;  importance of
Byzantine army and fleet, 303-4; con-
tinuing  frontier wars  between the
Empire and, 311; settlement of, in
Crete, 304 (see Piracy) and in Cyprus
and Sicily, 311; influence of Hellenis-
tic traditions and imperial administra-
tion, 310, 316; cultural relations be-
tween Empire and, 311-12, 318 sqq.,
323-4; treaties, 312-13; trade relations,
313-14 (andsee Digenes Akritas).
Arianism, 4, 90 sqq., 226.
Aristotle, 258.
Armenia, partition of, 6; Persia cedes
territory to Maurice, 9; Arab con-
quest of, 12; the Golden Age under
Bagratids, 20; annexation of, 245 con-
quered by Seljuks, 27-8; Heraclius
and, 102-3; Constantine and, n6;
secular poetry of, 133; monasticisin
in, 141; magister militum in Armenia,
295; architects in early Bulgaria (?),
343-
Army,xxiii, 72-3, 294 sqcj., 302-3; ex-
penditure on, 73; organization of, by
Diocletian and Constantine, 295;/z#H-
tanei, 295; comitatenses, 295; magistri
militum, 6, 295; conscription, 2965
mercenaries, 296,301; classes of troops
in, 296-7; Heraclius and the Themes,
13,	297 sqq. (andsee Themes); troops
defending capital and imperial body-