movement (i.e. on foot, mounted, by boat), as well as the participants’ costumes and acclamations, some of which were debased Latin, which had not been an administrative language for more than three centuries. The second book follows a very similar composition: (1) religious feasts and the description of palace buildings, (2) secular ceremonies and imperial ordonations, (3) imperial receptions and war festivities at the hippodrome, and later customs instituted by Constantine and his son Romanos. See also De Administrando Imperio References Sources Edition and Translation External links Partial translation of Book 1 and 2 by P. Stephenson 10th-century books 10th century in the Byzantine Empire Byzantine literature Constantine VII