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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). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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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• 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
De GruyterGenthiner Straße 1310785 BerlinGermanyTel. +49 (0)30.260 05-0Fax. +49 (0)30.260 05-251E-mail [email protected] www.degruyter.com
You can find further information on the “Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period” at http://www.degruyter.com/pmbz