The User’s Guide to the <i>Notitia Dignitatum:</i> the Case of the <i>Dux Armeniae (ND Or.</i> 38)
Peter J. Brennan
The extant Notitia Dignitatum describes itself as a list of the highest civilian and military officials Roman state their administrations, or rather two such lists, one for parts empire in East West. Each begins with (the so-called index), followed by separate entries these chapters). These modern labels are dangerously familiarising devices which set up anachronistic preconceptions about nature text its parts. I shall refer to lists initial sectional lists. latter all have similar structure, being divided into three parts: (i) an illustration representing jurisdiction official primarily visual form; (ii) functions and/or other within his jurisdiction; (iii) bureaucratic staff. first surfaces fifteenth century copies probably Carolingian manuscript Codex Spirensis.
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