All Diplomatic Correspondence and Secret Agreements of Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

This group gathers the diplomatic correspondence and secret agreements of antiquity and the early Middle Ages, down to the year 999. These are the diplomatic letters, tablets, notes and exchanges through which rulers and governments dealt with one another, from the clay tablets of the Bronze Age courts to the letters of the Roman Republic and the exchanges between Byzantine and Muslim rulers. A document belongs here when its cited article gives a date inside this span for the document's own signing, adoption, issue or composition. It excludes documents dated later, which sit in the neighboring period groups of the same kind.