Indiction (Noun)
Meaning
A 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms.
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
Examples
- Historians have proposed that the adoption of the indictio cycle may have been influenced by the Eastern Roman Empire.
- The Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire was still using the indictio cycle for tax assessments throughout its history.
- To establish a fixed starting point for their 15-year indictio cycle, medieval kingdoms like the kingdom of Dalriada borrowed the Roman tradition of Indictio.
- The use of the indictio cycle may have influenced the dating of Easter by medieval Easter synods.
- By adopting the indictio cycle in the eighth century, the Frankish kingdom unified a previously confusing system of dating in Western Christendom.