Political Communities Reordered (900-1050) - Byzantium: The Strengths and Limits of Centralization - Imperial Court
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What happened to the Great Palace of Constantinople under Constantine?
- The Great Palace of Constantinople, a sprawling building complex begun under Constantine, was expanded and beautified under his successors.
- Far more important than just the symbolic emplacement of imperial power, it was the central command post of the Byzantine Empire.
- Servants, slaves, and grooms; top courtiers and learned clergymen; cousins, siblings, and hangers-on of the emperor and empress lived within its walls.
What image did the imperial court cultivate?
What did Zoe do? What is she an example of?
- There were powerful women at the Great Palace, like Zoe (d.1050), the daughter of Constantine VIII.
- Contemporaries acknowledged her right to rule through her imperial blood, and through her marriages she "made" her husbands, Romanus III and Michael IV, into legitimate emperors.
- She and her sister even ruled jointly for one year (1042).
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What are eunuchs? What jobs did they have?
- Eunuchs are men who had been castrated.
- They were chosen to occupy some of the highest government offices - financial, administrative, and military.
What was the career of John the Orphanotrophos like?
- He was castrated by his parents because they intended for him to become a courtier.
- He began his career as a favourite of Emperor Basil II (r.976-1025).
- Thereafter, he served two more emperors and then engineered the elevation to the imperial throne of his brother, Michael IV (r.1034-1041) and his nephew, Michael V (r.1041-1042).
What was the eunuch for the emperor?
- Eunuchs were status symbols, markers of the emperor's supreme power.
- Eunuchs accompanied the emperor during his most sacred and vulnerable moments - when he removed his crown; when he participated in religious ceremonies; when he dreamed at night. No one, it was thought, was as faithful, trustworthy, or spiritually pure as a eunuch.
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