a comprehensive geographic and historical survey of most of the surrounding nations and.a lesson in the diplomacy to be pursued in dealing with the nations of the same area.a key to the foreign policy in the most dangerous and complicated area of the contemporary political scene, the area of northerners and Scythians,.The book content, according to its preface, is divided into four sections:
To this combination were added Constantine's own political instructions to his son Romanus. The work combines two of Constantine's earlier treatises, "On the Governance of the State and the various Nations" ( Περί Διοικήσεως τοῦ Κράτους βιβλίον καί τῶν διαφόρων Έθνῶν), concerning the histories and characters of the nations neighbouring the Empire, including the Turks, Pechenegs, Kievan Rus', South Slavs, Arabs, Lombards, Armenians, and Georgians and the "On the Themes of East and West" ( Περί θεμάτων Άνατολῆς καί Δύσεως, known in Latin as De Thematibus), concerning recent events in the imperial provinces. It contains advice on running the ethnically-mixed empire as well as fighting foreign enemies. De Administrando Imperio was written between 948 and 952. He produced many other works, including De Ceremoniis, a treatise on the etiquette and procedures of the imperial court, and a biography of his grandfather, Basil I.
Constantine was a scholar-emperor, who sought to foster learning and education in the Eastern Roman Empire.
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