The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, 395-700 AD

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THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY have still to be fully unpacked, and not surprisingly his versions have domi- nated mu ...

JUSTINIAN AND RECONQUEST artistic renaissance.^13 These judgements need to be treated with caution. Yet the reign did see a nota ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY the expedition’s success. Remembering the ignominious failure of the expedi- tion sent ...

JUSTINIAN AND RECONQUEST The emperor had a pretext for war in the murder of his protégée Amalasun- tha, the daughter of the Ostr ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY The eastern provinces and peace with Persia Whatever the original intention may have b ...

JUSTINIAN AND RECONQUEST second city of the eastern empire, a catastrophe which provoked Procopius to exclaim: I shudder when I ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY demonstrate directly from archaeological evidence (see Chapter 7). How- ever, it canno ...

JUSTINIAN AND RECONQUEST procedure I felt absolutely necessary lest, if I changed the phraseology, I be suspected of distorting ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY in 551, owed much to his having insisted on being given enough resources to raise suff ...

JUSTINIAN AND RECONQUEST Theodoret of Cyrrhus and Ibas of Edessa), and was raging throughout the later 540s, just when the war i ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY underline the lesson that victory belonged to the emperor, albeit a civilian one. But ...

JUSTINIAN AND RECONQUEST under the banner of restoring orthodoxy, yet very soon after the conquest the emperor in Constantinople ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY scope and impact are hard to assess for a variety of reasons. The fi rst has to do wit ...

JUSTINIAN AND RECONQUEST Transfi guration.^64 But defence was certainly vitally important in Justinian’s overall programme and i ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY looked different when the local Roman population was faced with the choice between the ...

JUSTINIAN AND RECONQUEST Athanagild, were in the main kept by Byzantium until 624 and their defence put under a magister militum ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY of reunifi cation; and third, the backdrop of urban and rural change which can be perc ...

JUSTINIAN AND RECONQUEST Figure 5.3 The fortress at Zenobia (Halabiye) on the Euphrates a dramatic way, it does seem that one ca ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY abundant literary sources, which portray Justinian both as a great and strong emperor ...