Ruling Separately but with the Same Mind: The Partition of Territory as Power-Sharing Projects between the Tenth and the Twelfth Century in Byzantium

Abstract

This article is a study on projects of jurisdictional division of imperial territory from the tenth to the twelfth century. For that, modern concepts of “power-sharing” and “power settlement” will be adapted for the analysed context. Initially the history of territorial power-sharing in the Roman Empire will be summarised to underline the long tradition upon which the studied projects lay. Then the political strategies behind those projects are also analysed, as well as how sources present them.