The power game in Byzantium : Antonina and the Empress Theodora
| 1. Verfasser: |
Evans, J. A. S. 1931-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London ; New York :
Continuum,
2011.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xvi, 264 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
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Contributor biographical information Table of contents only Publisher description |
Inhaltsangabe:
- The background of the story
- The scum of society
- The rise to power
- The remarkable career of the young Belisarius
- Antonina in love
- Victory and defeat in the ecclesiastical arena
- Theodora’s riposte
- The fall of John the Cappadocian
- The Theodosius and Antonina affair continued
- Plague and intrigue
- Theodora fosters an anti-Chalcedonian church
- The agony of Italy
- Postlude : the ending of the era of reconquest
- Appendix I. Two contemporary witnesses.
