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Observance of the Purification in the East in the Seventh Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 July 2017
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Incidental to their account of a riot against the Emperor Maurice in 602, the Byzantine historians give some valuable information about the observance of the feast of the Purification. These passages are isolated and out of the way and have so far escaped the attention of students of the subject. The only purpose of the present note is to make them available.
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1 Theophylacti Simocattae historiae, ed. by de Boor, C. (Leipzig, 1887), VIII, 4, 10–5, 3.Google Scholar
2 For the date, winter of 602, see the author's Persian War of the Emperor Maurice, Part I, The Chronology, with a Brief History of the Persian Calendar (Washington, 1939), pp. 62 f. Google Scholar
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Theophan. Conf., p. 283, 35 ff., writes that Maurice 
his son in November 601.
De Boor, , ibid., II, 615
(9), interprets the phrase as “engaged.” Though it is not the usual meaning of the words this is the best reconciliation of Theophanes with the earlier sources. In any event the independent agreement of Theophylactus and the Chronicon Paschale far surpasses the authority of Theophanes.Google Scholar
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