344 General index
Christians (in the Persian Empire) 24, 33, 35–6,
137, 182, 218 n. 51, 219, 221–5, 225–31, 230
Christians (persecution of) 35, 112, 219–21, 224–5
Christological controversies 35, 226–31, 273–4
Chronicon Paschale 148–9, 150
Church officials (see also ‘bishops’) 23, 223
churches (building of) 222–3
clergy (see also ‘priesthood’) 224
clibanarii 66, 75 n. 18, 274
client kings (see also ‘vassal kings’) 170
client kingdoms 144, 153
climatarch
¯
es 110
climate 244
codes of honour 136
Codex Iustinianus 204
coercendi intra terminos (see also intra terminos
imperii)
15
coins 29, 76–7, 121, 161
Collatio legum Mosaicarum et
Romanarum 216–18
colonies (of prisoners of war) 259
comes 274–5
comes commerciorum 203–4, 206, 274–5
comes foederatorum 135, 275
comes (sacrarum) largitionum 203 n. 158, 252, 275
Constantinian Revolution 33, 210, 275
conversion 222 n. 68
coronation 48
corrector totius Orientis 160
Council of Chalcedon 36, 226
Council of Ephesus 36, 226
couriers 141
craftsmen 255–7, 260
crises (domestic) 119
cultural exchange 4, 262
cultural interest 263–5
cultural policy 2
customs 208, 217
customs duties 145–6, 200–1, 206
customs posts
141, 145–6
dastgerd 214
defection 32, 142
defence (payments for) 137
deportations (of prisoners) 132 n. 73
deportations (see also ‘resettlement’) 23, 109, 151,
226, 226 n. 86, 254–63
dikastai (see ‘judges’)
diplomacy 245–54
diplomatic interaction 119, 134, 136
diplomatic protocol 12, 122, 126, 138–44, 233
diplomatic solutions 119–51
diplomats (see also ‘ambassadors’) 32, 106, 146
disintegration (of Sasanian Empire) 47
divine support 143, 239
documents 144
downfall (of Sasanian Empire) 48, 118
duel 81, 87
dux 275
dux Armeniae 208 n. 182
dux Mesopotamiae 251
dynasty (see ‘Sasanian dynasty’)
dyophysitism
274
economic clause(s) 129
economic interests 19
economy 195–209
Edict against the Manichaeans 28, 216–18
eir
¯
en
¯
e peras ouk echousa (see also ‘eternal peace’
and ‘peace treaty of 532’) 171
engineers 23
envoys (see ‘ambassadors’)
epitomes 89
equality (between rulers) 238–41
espionage 32, 146, 221, 245–54
eternal peace (of 532)(see also ‘peace treaty
of 532’) 26, 38–9, 107, 171, 174, 264
eurocentrism 2, 5, 53
exarchos 116, 158
exchange of goods (see ‘goods, exchange of’)
exchange of information 242–65
expansion (Islamic) 49
expansion (of Roman rule) 9 n. 6
expansion (of Sasanian rule) 9, 53, 100, 117
expansion (Parthian)
190
expansion (Roman policy of) 28
expansion (Sasanian policy of) 28
false doctrines 215
family (royal Sasanian) 86, 99, 124, 129–30
‘family of kings’ 45, 141, 149, 232–41
father-son relationship (see ‘family of kings’ and
‘guardianship’)
fire cult (see also ‘fire sanctuaries’) 182, 213
fire sanctuaries 57, 213, 215
fiscal advantages 146
fixed prices 29 n. 67, 200
foedus (see ‘peace treaty’) 275
foedus aequum 275
foedus iniquum 275
foreign policy (programmatic) 56–69
foreign policy (programmatic, Arsacid) 17
foreign policy (Roman) 12–13
foreign policy (Sasanian) 53, 60, 85, 100, 118, 133,
206
formation 65
fortification (of border) 15 n. 40, 37–8, 100–4,
107 n.
162, 130–1, 137, 142, 244, 248
fortresses 19–20, 31, 37, 40, 103, 107–8, 107 n.
162, 110, 120, 124, 128, 131, 193–4