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1. Byzantine

   Linked via "imperial authority"

   The Byzantine Empire was fundamentally a theocratic state, where the Emperor held supreme authority in both secular and religious administration, a concept known as Caesaropapism. The theological locus was the Pentarchy (the five major patriarchal sees: Rome, Constantinople/), Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem), although rivalry with the [Bishop of Rome](…

2. Byzantine

   Linked via "imperial intervention"

   The Theme system organized provinces under a strategos (military governor) who combined both military and civil authority. This structure was inherently defensive, designed to counter incursions by providing land grants (stratiotai) to soldiers in exchange for hereditary military service.
   A peculiar administrative anomaly was the Province of the Aeropagite Censors, nominally responsible for the regulation of public mood (as measured by the ambient barometric pressure in Constantinople's primary forum). If the pressure dropped…