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ContentPMBZ Online is a comprehensive biographical dictionary for the Byzantine Empire in the early Medieval Period (641-1025 AD) documenting more than 21,000 persons.

• Only online prosopography covering the whole Middle Byzantine Period (641-1025 AD).

• Brings sources and modern scholarship from many different publications together on over 21,000 persons.

• Documents all persons mentioned either by name or anonymously in the relevant Byzantine and non-Byzantine sources

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Content

• Combines sources in Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Syriac and information from a wide range of publications.

• PMBZ Online enables Byzantinists and historians of the early Middle Ages to study Byzantine society by comparing the biographies.

• PMBZ Online allows users to combine searches by name, title/occupation, place, period, sex, clergy/laity, life, works, sources and references which is impossible in the print version.

• Offers detailed search functionality.

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The SearchSimple search: The simple search scans the full text.

Example:Search for “Leon“

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The SearchResults list2,341 entries

Select the number of results per page.

Results can be sorted by Name or Relevance

Clicking on the title opens the document display

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The SearchDocument display

Change to “Reading View“

Index Terms

Key NumberName (also in Greek)

Links between entries

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The SearchDocument display

Fold-out function

A grey background marks hit-term highlighting

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The SearchAdvanced search

Click here to open the advanced search options

Add more options

Advanced search options:

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The SearchAdvanced search: Using a search criterium from the drop-down menu.

Choose from 9 search criteria:

Number of search results

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The SearchComplex search: Combining two search criteria

Clear your search from individual search criteria

Possible combinations:

Here in combination with AND

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Additional Database FeaturesFind-as-you-type display

Matching articles appear already while typing.

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Additional Database FeaturesHelpful documentsYou can find further PDF documents underneath the search options menu.

AbbreviationsExplanations

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Contact

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You can find further information on the “Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period” at http://www.degruyter.com/pmbz