CONSTANTINE VII PORPHYROGENITUS°
- CONSTANTINE VII PORPHYROGENITUS°
- CONSTANTINE VII PORPHYROGENITUS°, Byzantine emperor, 913–959.
He was known for his learning, as evidenced by his great treatises on
ceremonial, administrative, and army organization. According to some
scholars, in response to a letter of protest addressed to Constantine's
wife Helena by Ḥisdai ibn Shaprut , he stopped the persecutions
and forced conversions of Jews initiated in the empire by his
co-emperor, romanus i lecapenus . He also ceased attempts to force
Christianity on the khazars . During his reign the condition of
the Jews generally improved, earning him praises in the Hebrew
apocalypse, "vision of daniel ."
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Baron, Social 2, 3 (1957), 182–3; J. Starr, Jews in the Byzantine
Empire (1939), 7–8, 153–6; Mann, Texts, 1 (1931), 10–16; 23–25.
(Andrew Sharf)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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