A Short History of the Middle Ages Fourth Edition

in 534), an imperial law code, and the Digest (533), an orderly compilation of Roman juridical thought. From then on the laws of ...

Chapter One Key Events 212 Roman citizenship granted to all free inhabitants of the provinces 235–284 Crisis of the Third Centur ...

Notes 1 The Edict of Milan, in Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World, ed. Barbara H. Ro ...

17 Gregory the Great, Letter to Bishop Dominic of Carthage, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 10. Return to text. ...

FURTHER READING Brown, Peter. The World of Late Antiquity, 150–750. London: Thames and Hudson, 1971. Burrus, Virginia, ed. Late ...

Ravenna Cathedral Campanile (10th cent.) : Although the original cathedral at ravenna was built in late antiquity, the present c ...

Part I Three Cultures from One ...

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Two The Emergence of Sibling Cultures (c.600–c.750) THE RISE OF ISLAM in the Arabic world and its triumph over territories that ...

traditional Roman land taxes from the provinces left to them. This allowed the state to pay regular salaries to its soldiers, sa ...

was as venerable as the Roman Empire—and as ambitious. (See Map 1.5 on pp. 30– 31.) King Chosroes II (r.590–628), not unlike Jus ...

abandoned; still others remained as skeletal administrative centers. The public activities of marketplaces, theaters, and town s ...

Figure 2.1: Late Antique Ephesus But the events of the sixth and seventh centuries transformed the city. The Persian wars disrup ...

new walls to enclose the harbor area. The Embolos lost its centrality. Its southern flank became an “industrial zone,” with mill ...

the region, ready to drive their flocks to safety. Elsewhere (and, in times of peace, on the Anatolian plains as well), peasants ...

had had contact with the image of Christ, that cured Theodore, not the divine power of the image itself. A diptych carved around ...

Plate 2.1: An Ivory Diptych of Christ and the Virgin (mid-6th century) Originally fastened together with hinges, these two small ...

Peter and Paul and (on the right) Mary with the Christ Child between two angels. Although they have been trimmed at the bottom, ...

manufactured at Constantinople, is a typical, if exceptionally elegant, example. Panel from the consular diptych of Magnus ...

Here Magnus, who was probably a relative of the reigning emperor, is depicted on the same sort of backless throne that Christ an ...