navicularius

Byzantine worker

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division of labour in Byzantine Empire

  • Hagia Sophia: mosaic
    In Byzantine Empire: The reforms of Diocletian and Constantine

    …work of the shipmaster, or navicularius; and services rendered by the curiales, members of the municipal senate charged with the assessment and collection of local taxes. Constantine’s laws in many instances extended or even rendered hereditary those enforced responsibilities, thus laying the foundations for the system of collegia, or hereditary…

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