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Content. PMBZ 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).

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  1. Content • PMBZ 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

  2. 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.

  3. The Search • Simple search: The simple searchscansthefulltext. Example: Search for “Leon“

  4. The Search • Resultslist • 2,341 entries Select thenumberofresults per page. Results can be sorted by Name or Relevance Clicking on the title opensthedocumentdisplay

  5. The Search • Documentdisplay Change to “Reading View“ Key Number Name (also in Greek) Index Terms Links between entries

  6. The Search • Documentdisplay A grey background marks hit-term highlighting Fold-out function

  7. The Search • Advancedsearch Advancedsearchoptions: Add moreoptions Click hereto open theadvancedsearchoptions

  8. The Search • Advancedsearch: Using a searchcriteriumfromthedrop-down menu. Numberofsearchresults Choose from 9 search criteria:

  9. The Search • Complexsearch: Combiningtwosearchcriteria Clear yoursearchfrom individual searchcriteria Here in combinationwith AND Possiblecombinations:

  10. Additional Database Features • Find-as-you-type display Matchingarticlesappearalreadywhiletyping.

  11. Additional Database Features • Helpfuldocuments • You can find further PDF documents underneath the search options menu. Abbreviations Explanations

  12. Contact De Gruyter Genthiner Straße 13 10785 Berlin Germany Tel. +49 (0)30.260 05-0 Fax. +49 (0)30.260 05-251 E-mailinfo@degruyter.com Website www.degruyter.com You can find further information on the “Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period” at http://www.degruyter.com/pmbz

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