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		Rufinus in his preface tells us that he omitted it, and in his work on the adulteration of the books of Origin he declares that it is so Origin in doctrine that one seems to hear Enemies himself speaking.
		The doctrine is, as Rufinus says, the Arianism of the second half of the fourth century.
		As the Eunomian passage was found by Rufinus in both the recensions of Clement known to him, we may suppose that the interpolation was made in the original work by a Eunomian about 365-70, before the abridgment R. was made about 370-80.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/c/clementines.html (6588 words)

	CANON - LoveToKnow Article on CANON
		This was an important stage in the history of the centralization of canon law; the collection was officially received ~ by the Frankish Church, imposed by the council of Aix-la-Chapelle of 802, and from that time on was recognized and quoted as the liber canonwm.
		In spite of some hesitation, with regard rather to the official character than to the historical authenticity of the letters attributed to the popes of the earlier centuries, the False Decretals were accepted with confidence, together with the authentic texts which served as a passport for them.
		Moreover, it could not have become an official code; it woul.d be impossible to transform into so many laws either the discordant texts which Gratian endeavoured to reconcile or his own Dicta; a treatise on canon law is not a code.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CANON.htm (13321 words)

	ArcadiusOV
		Rufinus was a devoted Christian who passed several severe laws against pagans, heretics and adulterers.
		Both Stilicho and Rufinus were highly ambitious, unscrupulous men and Stilicho claimed that he had been asked by the late Theodosius not only to guard over Honorius but also over Arcadius.
		When Arcadius and Rufinus came to greet the armies near Constantinople in November of 395, the soldiers turned on the Praetorian Prefect and cut him down in front of the emperor.
	www.xs4all.nl /~sp88k/Coin/Traveler/Overviews/ArcadiusOV.htm (2020 words)

	Rufinus (Byzantine official) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the period immediately after Theodosius' death in 395 Rufinus was virtually the ruler of the Eastern Roman empire, since he exercised great influence over the weak-willed emperor Arcadius.
		He attempted to further join himself to Arcadius by marrying his daughter to the young emperor, however this plan was stymied by another of the imperial ministers, Eutropius.
		Rufinus was both a contemporary and a rival of the Vandal-turned- magister militum Stilicho, and one of the charges made against Stilicho in 408 was that he had given orders for Rufinus' assassination.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rufinus_(Byzantine_official) (161 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Arcadius
		Rufinus in contrast wanted to tie himself to the emperor through a marriage connection to his daughter.
		Rufinus assumed full control of the east, and the Vandal Stilicho, Theodosius' closest advisor and general, took control of Honorius in the west.
		Moreover, there was considerable resentment against Rufinus in the east for using his office to greatly enrich himself and perhaps, too, because he was a westerner.
	www.roman-emperors.org /arcadius.htm (3420 words)

	CANON LAW - Online Information article about CANON LAW
		After the Council of Trent.The numerous important decrees made by the council of Trent, in the second part of its sessions, called de reformation, are the starting-point of the canon law in its latest stage, jus novissimum; it is this which is still in force in the Roman Church.
		Several of these organs of the papal authority have published official collections, in which more place is devoted to jurisprudence than to laws; several others have only private compilations, or even none at all, among others the most important, viz.
		The official edition of the Bullarium of Benedict XIV, (4 vols., Rome, 17541758) has been reprinted several times and is of great importance; the continuation of the Bullarium since Benedict XIV.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CAL_CAR/CANON_LAW.html (11984 words)

	Coinage, Documents, 161-512 A.D.
		The values were pegged to official tariffing of gold and silver coins, whereas the market prices of gold and silver bullion preserved on later papyri were of inferior purity so that they do not correspond to the official value of the currency.
		The Emperors Valentinian I (364- 375) and Valens (364-375) to the Praetorian Prefect Rufinus.
		This method shall be followed in order that the taxgathers, official escorts, and representatives of the largesses may no longer convert fiscal payments to their gain by substituting adulterated solidi.
	www.tulane.edu /~august/handouts/601ccdoc.htm (4263 words)

	The Greek Anthology
		V. Byzantine period; from the transference of the seat of empire to Constantinople, A.D. 330, to the formation of the Palatine Anthology in the reign of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, about the middle of the tenth century.
		They belong to the age of the Byzantine metaphrasts, when infinite pains were taken to rewrite well-known poems or passages in different metres, by turning Homer into elegiacs or iambics, and recasting pieces of Euripides or Menander as epigrams.
		The Referendarii were a board of high officials, who, according to the commentator on the Notitia imperii, transmitted petitions and cases referred from the lower courts to the Emperor, and issued his decisions upon them.
	www.greecetravelblog.com /greek-epigrams/greek-anthology_addendum-epigrammatists.asp (8395 words)

	Rufinus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tyrannius Rufinus, a monk of the later fourth century AD Aulus Triarius Rufinus Roman consul in AD 210
		Quintus Aridius Rufinus another Roman consul of the early third century AD Rufinus a governor of Roman Britain in the early third century AD who may be the same man as one of the two consuls.
		Rufinus a chief minister for two Eastern Roman emperors, Theodosius I and Arcadius in the late fourth century AD.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rufinus (150 words)

	Rodolphe Guilland, "Les Eunuques dans l'Empire Byzantin" (English)
		The presence of innumerable eunuchs at the Byzantine court seems to be in conflict with the laws that severely prohibited eunuchism.
		In the expedition of 964, Nicephorus II Phocas sent the Byzantine fleet to Sicily under the command of the eunuch patrician Nicetas, navarchos or drungaire of the fleet, who was defeated and taken prisoner (Leo the Deacon 65-67; Cedr.
		On the Byzantine diplomatic mission sent to Charlemagne to ask for the hand of his daughter, there were apparently other eunuchs besides the eunuch Elyseus, the imperial notary.
	www.well.com /user/aquarius/guilland-eunuques.htm (13232 words)

	Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IX
		It was by his contrivance that the scheme of Rufinus for marrying his own daughter to the Emperor was defeated: and that Eudoxia the daughter of a Frankish general was substituted for her.
		The senate, and all the great officials miltary and civil poured into the palace of the Caelig;sars to offer their homage, and emulated each other in the honor of kissing the hand and even the wrinkled visage of the eunuch.
		Eutropius was deprived of his official dignity, his property was declared confiscated, and he was commanded to quit the palace instantly under pain of death.
	www.bible.ca /history/fathers/NPNF1-09/npnf1-09-34.htm (1748 words)

	Byzantine Studies Conference: 1999 Abstracts
		In the late seventh century it became the capital of the Byzantine theme of Anatolikon and the headquarters of the army of the Anatolics; it was frequently regarded by ninth-century Arab sources as the largest Byzantine city in Anatolia.
		Having annexed Byzantine territories, Stefan Dusan acted as one of the sides in the incessant Byzantine civil wars: he was obviously accepted as such by many of the local magnates exhausted by decades of civil strife and tired of ever shifting political alliances.
		The specifically Byzantine nature of the elimination of the Evangelists' titulus is shown not only by the continuous practice of the Latin Church, but also by the prevalence of tituli, generally of the form 'This is the King of the Jews', in Syrian and Armenian illuminated manuscripts.
	www.byzconf.org /1999abstracts.html (16256 words)

	Issue 2
		During the period between 408-415, a bigger church was built on the same spot by architect Rufinus; it was opened on 10 October 415.
		The three-aisled basilica was constructed during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Theodosius II.
		In order to bring to surface the Byzantine mosaics that covered with a coating in 1506, a widespread restoration was carried out, by order of Mustapha Kemal Ataturk, founder of thr Turkish Republic, and February 1935 the church was lasunched as a museum.
	www.ecumenicalhellenism.gr /5+1/2/contgb.html (1615 words)

	Byzantine Studies Conference: 1990 Abstracts
		Byzantine ivories have been the subject of scholarly analysis and debate from the standpoint of iconography, historical significance, stylistic groupings, technique and crafting, but not of their original appearance.
		Thus, the Byzantine Fathers, from various perspectives, affirm the fundamental equality of the sexes, particularly in the prelapsarian state, and view male domination of woman as a symptom of humanity's fall.
		The Byzantine Fortress on the Hexamilion across the Isthmus of Corinth was constructed in the early years of the fifth century and served as a primary means of defense for the Peloponnesos until the fifteenth century and beyond.
	www.byzconf.org /1990abstracts.html (17398 words)

	NPNF (V1-09) (xv.ii)
		It was by his contrivance that the scheme of Rufinus for marrying his own daughter to the Emperor was defeated: and that Eudoxia the daughter of a Frankish general was substituted for her.
		The senate, and all the great officials military and civil poured into the palace of the CÃ¦sars to offer their homage, and emulated each other in the honor of kissing the hand and even the wrinkled visage of the eunuch.
		Eutropius was deprived of his official dignity, his property was declared confiscated, and he was commanded to quit the palace instantly under pain of death.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/npnf109.xv.ii.html (1791 words)

	Thacia Montana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ravennat." (151); it was fortified during the Byzantine period, and at the end of 545 the Byzantine general, John, was defeated and slain there.
		It may be questioned whether they were really bishops of Thaca, or if there was not near Thacia a place of the same name to which was added a distinctive epithet.
		The official list of titular sees of the Roman Curia mentions only Thacia Monana and identifies it with Bordj Messaoudi.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/thacia_montana.html (226 words)

	Shahid. Byzantinism and Arabism
		Of the three constituents of Byzantinism -- the Roman, the Greek, and the Christian --it was the last that affected, influenced, and sometimes even controlled the lives of those Arabs who moved in the Byzantine orbit.
		The lure of the Byzantine connection is nowhere better illustrated than in the career of this chief, who preferred to serve in the Byzantine army than to be an independent king or chief in the Arabian Peninsula.
		Perhaps that of Aspebetos is the most remarkable: from a pagan chief to a Byzantine phylarch, to a baptized one, to a bishop of the Parembole, to a participant at the Council of Ephesus and a delegate to Nestorius expressing the strong voice of Arab Orthodoxy.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/med/shahid.html (4682 words)

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		Family matters in the Byzantine court were likewise; when the Empress Eudokia separated from the Emperor Theodosius II, she settled in Jerusalem and embarked on several ambitious construction projects.
		The Nea=B6, officially called the New (nea) Church of St. Mary, was the l= argest Byzantine church erected in the city.
		The Byzantine Cardo is depicted on the Madaba Map as a wide collonaded avenue, with a red tile roof, which crossed the city from north to south.
	www.hebroots.org /hebrootsarchive/9704/970401_b.html (2495 words)

	Stilicho Summary
		Rufinus gained little from his victory over Stilicho, as the returning troops killed him upon their arrival in Constantinople.
		The courtiers spread rumors that he planned the assassination of Rufinus, he was intriguing with his old adversary Alaric, he had invited the barbarians into Gaul in 406, and he planned to place his son on the imperial throne.
		Besides the relevant legal records in the Codex Theodosianus, the major primary source for the events of Stilicho's reign, or at least events prior to 404, are the panegyrics addressed to him by the poet Claudian.
	www.bookrags.com /Stilicho (2154 words)

	Kidus Gabriel
		The worship of the true God was officially announced and established by Queen Makeda on her return from her historic visit to King Solomon at Jerusalem.
		According to the western historians and writers the introduction of Christianity to Ethiopia was in the fourth century during the reign of Ezana (320-356 A.D.) and Ezana became the first African King to have been a Christian and to have made Christianity the official religion of his empire.
		The official declaration of the doctrine of Christ by Ezana was done not as a new introduction to the people, he did it ti prove himself as the true Christian leader of the nation.
	www.kidusgebriel.org /History.html (3112 words)

	History of the
		During the Byzantine period the first feature was preserved; the second experienced a great change because of a constant tendency to concentrate military and civil authority in the same hands.
		Later, when Justinian’s legislation became officially obligatory upon the whole Empire, his code proved to be too bulky and difficult of comprehension for the eastern provinces, so that in actual practice they continued to use the Syriac lawbook as a substitute for the codex.
		Rufinus was soon murdered and two years later the eunuch Eutropius exerted the greatest influence upon the Emperor.
	www.holytrinitymission.org /books/english/bysantine_empire_vasiliev.htm (17828 words)

	Literature, learning, education, and art / 1st period - by Al. Vasilief
		Since this doctrine was the official Egyptian religion, the action of the council was followed by the abolition of Greek from the church and the substitution of the Coptic language in its stead.
		His Byzantine History, which has survived in fragments, and his information on the life and customs of the Huns are both extremely interesting and valuable.
		The Golden Gate (Porta Aurea), through which the emperors made their official entry into Constantinople, was built at the end of the fourth century or the early part of the fifth, remarkable for its architectural splendor, it is still in existence.
	www.ellopos.net /elpenor/vasilief/literature-learning-education-art.asp (4553 words)

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		Family matters in the Byzantine court were likewise; when the Empress Eudokia separated from the Emperor Theodosius II, she settled in Jerusalem and embarked on several ambitious construction projects.
		The 'Nea', officially called the New (nea) Church of St. Mary, was the largest Byzantine church erected in the city.
		The Byzantine Cardo is depicted on the Madaba Map as a wide collonaded avenue, with a red tile roof, which crossed the city from north to south.
	www.biu.ac.il /JS/rennert/history_7.html (2467 words)

	OCA - Resource Handbook for Lay Ministries
		Because of the growing recognition and "official" character of the church in the Byzantine Empire, the conditions of church life changed radically.
		Two kinds of hospitals existed during the Byzantine period: those that were church institutions, staffed by clergy, monks and nuns; and diaconates, which were serviced by the lay "philoponoi" (friends of the suffering).
		Much of this activity of women in the Byzantine Empire was made possible by the remarkable changes in laws concerning the legal rights and privileges of women.
	www.oca.org /RHArticle.asp?SID=15&ArticleID=12 (4654 words)

	unspellable_in_this_font's Xanga Site
		Rufinus loathed Stilicho and plotted his ruin, but Stilicho, animated by the danger, advanced to the East, the masses of the German soldiers with him, at the ready to smite any enemy of their Stilicho.
		They halted a mile short of the walls, and to lure Rufinus, Stilicho appealed to his vanity, and sent a messenger to let him know that the Crown was in their power to bestow upon him.
		Rufinus strutted, swollen in breast and followed the messenger out the city gates and into the midst of the soldiers, which he regarded with studied haughtiness, walking amidst them striking poses of an Imperial sort, expecting acclamation.
	www.xanga.com /unspellable_in_this_font (5133 words)

	The Copts and Christian Civilization
		Whereas the official census tends to reduce their number to less than three million [6% of the population] for political and administrative reasons, some Copts contend that they are ten million [20% of the population], which may be an exaggeration.
		The Byzantine Emperors who aimed at unity within the Church as the sole bearer of cohesion in the Empire stopped at nothing to impose that unity by brutal force on the Egyptian people.
		It was thus that a new wave of gruesome persecution was inaugurated to obliterate all vestiges of separatism in Egypt.
	www.mesk.com /stmary/pages/history.html (10699 words)

	The Catholic Church
		In fact the official recognition of the Church and its association with the Roman state became the determining factor in the development of a new social order.
		Even the most arrogant official feared to touch a bishop, and there are numerous instances of episcopal intervention not only on behalf of the rights of individuals, but also of those of cities and provinces.
		Eusebius' attitude to Constantine is already that of a Byzantine court bishop, and he surrounds the figure of the emperor with a nimbus of supernatural authority such as had always characterized the theocratic monarchies of the ancient East.
	catholiceducation.org /articles/history/world/wh0037.html (6662 words)

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