An Addendum to the PLRE?
The Case of the Cubicularius Novianos
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https://doi.org/10.12797/CC.20.2019.22.09Keywords:
Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire, Eunuchs, CourtAbstract
Addendum to the PLRE?
The short article deals with the existence of a court eunuch that was named Novianos. The person in question can be found in a study of the French Byzantinist Rodolphe Guilland, but seems to be non-existent in the classical sources.
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Mango C. (ed.), Nikephoros Patriarch of Constantinople, Short History, Dumbarton Oaks 1990.
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Guilland R., 1943, ‘Les eunuques dans l’empire byzantin: Etude de titulature et de prosopographie Byzantines’, Études Byzantines 1, pp. 197–238. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3406/rebyz.1943.907
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