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 | | Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople proclaims her as the 'God-crowned Theodora whose mind is adorned with piety and whose constant toil lies in unsparing efforts to nourish the destitute.'[[11]] She shut down brothels in the capital and removed the prostitutes to a convent on the Asian side of the Dardanelles called the Metanoia (Repentance). | | | The origin of Theodora's family has prompted some speculation: Syria, Cyprus, and Paphlagonia have all been suggested but we meet her first in Procopius' Anekdota as the second of three daughters of one Acacius, the bear-keeper for the Green faction in the Hippodrome at Constantinople. | | | One source[[9]] for the 'Nika' revolt reports that Justinian might have shown compassion for the nephews of Anastasius, Pompeius and Hypatius, the latter of whom the mob had chosen as their replacement for Justinian, but Theodora did not approve of mercy where the security of the regime was in question. |
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http://www.roman-emperors.org/dora.htm
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| | TIMELINE 6th CENTURY page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE |
| | Silverius was arrested and sent to the island of Ponza. | | | The battle for Italy had left the countryside barren and depopulated. | | | But if I attempt even the least deviation from my profession, I admit that, according to my own declaration, I am an accomplice to those whom I have condemned. |
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| | African Christianity |
| | Although some Ethiopians are Moslem, the country remained a bastion of Christianity down through the centuries. | | | Parts of Nubia were still Christian about a century before Columbus discovered America... | | | Christian Nubia was a civilization of churches, frescoes, manuscripts, etc. For a long time, historians believed that Christianity had not survived long after the Arab attacks in the seventh (7th) century. |
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| | Theodora (6th century) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Others instead argue that her association with Monophysitism is largely because of Justinian's putting her in charge of courting the Monophysites' reunion with the Chalcedonian party in the Church, and so while remaining Chalcedonian herself, she was pastorally favorable toward the non-Chalcedonians. | | | Critics of Procopius (whose work reveals a man seriously disillusioned regarding his rulers) have dismissed his work as vitriolic and pornographic, but have been unable to discredit his facts. | | | She also helped to mitigate the breach in Christian sects that loomed large over her time; she probably had a large part in Justinian's efforts to reconcile the Monophysites to orthodoxy. |
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| | It seems to be received as an historical fact that after the Council of Chalcedon those Christians who refused to accept its decisions and doctrinal statements were immediately isolated and rapidly withdrew into their own communion. | | | Thus in 536 AD Anthimus was deposed and Severus was condemned as a Nestorian and a Eutychian. | | | The Empress Theodora, ever a supporter of Severus and the non-Chalcedonians helped him to escape back to Egypt where he died a few years later. |
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| | Nika riots: Information From Answers.com |
| | Justinian had his generals Belisarius and Mundus suppress the revolt on January 18, which they did with much bloodshed by trapping the rebels in the Hippodrome. | | | Justinian considered fleeing, but his wife Theodora convinced him to stay in the city. |
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| | TAPESTRY - LoveToKnow Article on TAPESTRY |
| | The demand for such production of the textrinae or trade workshops, and of the more private gynaecea, as well as the organization of workmens societies, collegia opificum, are evidence of circumstances lasting for some centuries in Rome that were favorable to tapestry-weaving there. | | | This also is Egypto-Roman work, about the 4th century, and is 4 ft. 5 in. | | | 5569), Ovid appears to be describing this very process, and a great number of specimens of 2nd to 5th century EgyptoRoman workmanship corroborate the presumption of its existence in Ovids time. |
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| | Keeping Catholics Catholic Page XXV-The Timeline-The Sixth Century |
| | Silverius was indeed sent back to Italy, but as a prisoner of his intruded successor. | | | Anthimus, Patriarch of Constantinople is exposed as a Monophysite heretic and is excommunicated and anathematized. | | | He was none other than that deacon, Vigilius, who had been chosen by Boniface II as his successor. |
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| | He was opposed by the deacon Psoes, whom Rhodon, the Augustal Prefect, had arrested and tortured. | | | Anthimus, a closet Monophysite, was deposed at a council in 536. | | | Peter of Apamena and Zooras were anathematized, as was Severus, on 6 August. |
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| | c633 Nikbanou, a 7th century Persian Zoroastrian princess, fled to a mountain refuge at Chak to escape Arab horsemen planting the green pennants of Islam in Iranian soil. | | | 700-800 According to Iraqis Muslim forces "liberated" Iraq from the Persians in the 8th century qadissiyah battle. | | | c800-900 The Alawi faith was founded in the 9th century by a Muslim, who declared himself the "gateway" to the divine truth and abandoned Islam. |
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| | Bright Weavings: The Worlds of Guy Gavriel Kay - Bibliographies - The Sarantine Mosaic |
| | Narrowing the focus again, there's real scholarship in Averil Cameron's Procopius and the Sixth Century (and once I mention Procopius I really should suggest having a look at his The Secret History which shows, among other things, how nasty historians could be.) Cameron's The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity covers the period between AD 395-600. | | | For me the easiest access for the general reader to the 6th century in Byzantium and Italy is Robert Browning's Justinian and Theodora, a popular history by a very substantial historian. | | | Ernst Kitzinger is perhaps the most honoured name in the field, and his Byzantine Art in the Making covers the 3rd to the 7th centuries, though in a manner that may be too formal and detailed for anyone simply looking for an overview. |
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http://www.brightweavings.com/bibliographies/bib_sarantine.htm
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| | Journal of Social History: Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer & History |
| | The discovery of antibiotics and blood transfusions by the 1930s brought ever more aggressive surgeries. | | | The rejection of "humoralism" in the nineteenth century, with its belief that breast cancer was largely a localized condition, and the rise of therapeutic empiricism, brought surgery to the fore. | | | Olson combines genetic arguments with the history of medicine and the history of appearance more generally to show the ways in which the cultural meaning of the breast--and of its treatment--have been constructed over time. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2005/is_3_37/ai_n6003238
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| | Red Hen: Past Seasons |
| | Jamie Pachino's play attempts to solve the mystery in a fast-paced and funny examination of the elusive nature of historical truth. | | | Chronicled in her own time by a slanderous volume called The Secret History, Theodora has been debated, interpreted, analyzed and hypothesized about by at least a dozen biographers. | | | The result is an unruly, unpredictable, and less-than-academic debate that sheds light on some of history's most crucial issues. |
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http://www.feministtheatre.org/pastseasons.html
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| | For a much more complete listing of links to Procopius on the internet, see 'Justinian, Theodora and Procopius, a web directory about 6th-century Byzantium and its greatest historians', at: | | | Into it, as into the pages of a private journal, Procopius pours his detestation of Justinian and Theodora; even Belisarius and his wife are not spared. | | | The empress Theodora he describes as the most dishonourable and treacherous people on the face of the Earth, always betraying their friends and supporters and condemning innocent men and women to exile, death, or dungeon. |
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| | The West and the World, 1300-1800 |
| | Class discussion of (1) Islam, Islam and the West, Suleiman, the Turks and Europe and (2) Coming of a European Renaissance (Ghiberti and Brunelleschi). | | | B (6th edition): "An Arab View of the Crusades", p. | | | McKay, Hill, Buckler and Ebrey, 6th ed., A History of World Societies, Vol. |
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| | Justinian, Theodora and Procopius |
| | Welcome to Justinian, Theodora and Procopius, a web directory about 6th-century Byzantium and its greatest historian. | | | This site was created in tandem with an online text of Procopius' | | | Linked guide to the life and writings of the Herodotus of Halicarnassus, the father of history |
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| | BYZANTIUM: Modern Byzantine Novels, Poetry, Plays and Music |
| | Underhill, Clara., Theodora, the courtesan of Constantinople, (New York, Sears, c1932) | | | Justinian and Theodora in the later years of her life from the perspective of Theodora's illegitimate son who is passed off as her nephew. | | | Based on an ancient mystical legend, the book gives a good view on a rather neglected period and on the oppression of the Jews by the Byzantines. |
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| | He was the author of a history in eight books of the wars fought by the emperor Justinian I, a panegyric on Justinian's public works[?] throughout the empire, and a book known as the Secret History that claims to report the scandals Procopius could not include in his published history. | | | The Secret History was discovered centuries later in the Vatican Library and published in 1623, but its existence was already known from the Suda, which referred to it as the Anekdota ("the unpublished composition"). | | | The Secret History covers the same years as the seven books of the History of Justinian's Wars and purports to have been written after they were published. |
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| | DONGOLA (MUDIRIA) - LoveToKnow Article on DONGOLA (MUDIRIA) |
| | The Moslems may have extinguished it in blood, for the region between Dongola and Shendi appears to have been depopulated. | | | The last named became converted to Christianity about the middle of the 6th century, through the instrumentality, it is stated, of the empress Theodora. | | | This state, now generally referred to as the Christian kingdom of Dongola; lasted for eight or nine hundred years. |
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| | Templon |
| | Although classical drama was performed in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, during the 5th and 6th century when the first templa appear, when Christian liturgy was first being developed, the plays and their architecture had lost their importance and could not have influenced Christian ritual. | | | On them had been carved the monograms of Justinian and Theodora (6th century), even though Theodora had been dead for several years, as well as a multi-armed cross in the center. | | | A more plausible theory is that the templon models in both form and content the decorative wall of the Torah screen in Jewish synagogues of the second and third centuries. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Byzantine Empire |
| | Most of the Balkans were lost to the Avars and to Slavic tribes, who resettled abandoned sites. | | | The empire had survived Germanic and Hunnic tribal migrations and raids in the 5th and 6th centuries and had stabilized a reasonably secure eastern frontier against the Sassanian Empire of Persia, but it could not recover, hold, and govern the entire Mediterranean world. | | | Emperor Justinian I and his wife, Theodora, attempted to restore the former majesty, intellectual quality, and geographic limits of the Roman Empire. |
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| | Although some attempts were made in the 18th cent. | | | Spanish American literature -> The Nineteenth Century: Nationalism and Romanticism The colonial period in Spanish American history and letters came to an end with the wars for independence in the early 19th cent. | | | Swedish literature -> The Nineteenth Century When romanticism flowered in the golden age of Swedish poetry (c.1820-1840), the movement became Germanic in character and conservative in tone; many of its themes were taken from folk culture. |
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| | Justin I - TheBestLinks.com - April 1, August 1, Anazarbus, Byzantine Empire, ... |
| | This edict paved the way for Justinian to marry Theodora, a former mime actress, and eventually resulted in a major blurring of the old class distinctions at the Imperial court. | | | In 525, Justin repealed a law that effectively prohibited a member of the senatorial class from marrying a woman from a lower class of society, including the theatre, which was considered scandalous at the time. |
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| | In Italy Online - Byzantine Italy |
| | This detail was added in the 19th century by a Roman artisan named Felice Kibel, who is considered somewhat of an anti-Christ around these parts. | | | Built in the 10th century, it escaped destruction three times in World War Two alone. | | | Theodora apparently wielded a powerful influence over Justinian for the rest of her life. |
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| | 541 - definition of 541 in Encyclopedia |
| | The Uighurs come under the rule of the Hephthalites. | | | John the Cappadocian is dismissed by Theodora for treason. | | | 5th century - 6th century - 7th century |
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| | Nativity News |
| | This ivory plaque, also from the 6th Century A.D., is from Syria. | | | This ivory bookcover, also dated from the 5th Century A.D. is found in Milan, Italy. | | | In respect and affection for their ancestors, whom they venerated as if they had been alive, they spared the church. |
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| | FOCUS on Hagia Sophia (Visiting) |
| | he monograms of Justinian and his wife Theodora can also be seenon the column capitals. | | | Due to repairs and earthquakes over the centuries, the large dome is not completely circular any more. | | | The door on the south side opens into a vestibule, which leads to what has been the main entrance of the building since the 10th century. |
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| | St. Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai |
| | These inscriptions had been reported by travelers as far back as the 18th century, but not until the 1958 expedition was a careful study made of them in relation to the church structure. | | | Theodora died in 548 and Justinian in 565, so that the church was completed between those years. | | | Careful study of the mosaic's surface revealed that it had not been seriously tampered with since its completion 1400 years ago and that centuries of incense and candle smoke had given it a beautiful patina of age. |
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| | Theodora - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Theodora (11th century), Byzantine empress who ruled (1055-1056). | | | This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. | | | Theodora (10th century), Roman senatrix and mother of Marozia, concubine to Pope Sergius III. |
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| | PHOENICIAN ARTS - Mosaics, wall murals, decorative tiles, marble mosaic |
| | Early examples of the 5th and 6th centuries are found in cities somewhat removed from the capital city of Constantinople (present-day İstanbul). | | | Byzantine figural mosaics in religious monuments in Constantinople were all destroyed during the iconoclastic period of the 8th and 9th centuries. | | | Before the end of the 3rd century BC, pebbles were in large part replaced with tesserae cut from stone and sometimes from glass. |
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| | History of Jewelry at Martin's Jewelry - Information on the history of jewelry including rings, necklaces, earrings, ... |
| | The most typical ornament was the brooch, which took the form of a ring with a pin held in place by the cloth through which it passed. | | | The dress is encrusted with gold and gemstones, gold pendants are worn at the neck and shoulders and hang in festoons from the temples to the breast. | | | In the Middle Ages, beginning in the 12th century, the jeweler's art, which was at first dominated by the church patronage, became part of secular life with the foundation of town guilds. |
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| | Miscellaneous Literary Sources for the Cult of St. George |
| | (3) For the salvation of Demetrius the deacon and of Georgius (his) son, and for the rest of Somas (his) father and of Demetrius and of Theodora (his) children. | | | This line is an interpolation into the life of Leo made no earlier than the 10th century, but there is no reason to doubt its accuracy. | | | In his time our Lord God saw fit in this city of Rome to disclose a great treasure through this bountiful pontiff. |
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| | A Visual Tour through Late Antiquity |
| | By the end of the fifth century, though, many similar generals were emphasizing their barbarian heritage, and setting themselves up as the kings of independent peoples. | | | The world of Gregory of Tours was influenced by the traditions of the late Roman aristocracy, of the Christian churches, and of the barbarian warrior aristocracies that seized power in many western regions during the fifth and sixth centuries. | | | Although the contrast between this "barbaric" art and "Romano-Gallic" art is apparently great, we can't say that people chose their artistic or symbolic loyalties on the basis of their ancestral background. |
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| | Europeans instantly coveted these things to such a degree that they happily sacked and pillaged from the Byzantines (who were in theory the allies they had been sent to help) as much as from the Saracens and Turks. | | | When the world did not end, people in the centuries that followed became more sanguine that The End was not Near, and began displaying more interest in frivolous worldly matters such as dressing better than one's neighbors. | | | The Emperor Justinian and his court and clergy, c.510 (Quicherat) |
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| | Timeline: Fourteenth Century |
| | The Ottoman sultan, Orhan, allies himself with one of the Christian contenders for the throne in Constantinople, John Cantacuzemus, and marries his daughter, Theodora. | | | And Ottoman warriors cross into Thrace (into Europe) to plunder. |
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| | Arta |
| | The Parigoritissa Museum houses some of the archaeological finds from the region, the rest are in the museum in Yanina. | | | The capitals on the columns in the sanctuary originally belonged to an Early Christian building of the 5th or 6th century. | | | Ancient Amvrakia : Recent excavations (1976) brought to light the theatre - of which the small orchestra and four rows of seats have been preserved - the foundations of the Doric temple of Pythian Apollo (5th century B.C.), sections of the ancient walls, and the base of a 6th century B.C. monument. |
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| | Destiny's Shield (Hardcover) - Eric Flint |
| | The people who command the Malwa bureaucracy and armies are cruel, ruthless men with depraved appetites which their power permits them to indulge to the full. | | | Maneuvering through Mesopotamia in unfamiliar terrain and the risk of doubtful allies, Belisarius must outwit powerful enemies -- and then, when there is no longer room to maneuver, to meet them sword-edge to sword-edge." /> |
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| | Celtic Designs Jewelery - Most Popular |
| | Symbolizes the warmth and lasting presence of the sun. | | | The cisalpine gauls of northern italy were conquered by the romans in the 2nd century bc; transalpine gaul (modern france and the rhineland) was subdued by julius caesar in the 1st century bc, and most of britain came under roman rule in the 1st century ad. | | | They plundered rome in 390, sacked delphi in 279, and penetrated asia minor, where they were known as galatians. |
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| | Devonshire House Ball 1897. Lady Randolph Churchill as Empress Theodora |
| | For the Ball she chose to represent the famously beautiful 6th century Theodora, who had risen, according to the Greek author Procopius, from dancing girl on the game to Byzantine Empress. | | | Her discretion about this affair was summed up in her own memoirs: “…there may be some to whom these Reminiscences will be interesting chiefly in virtue of what is left unsaid.” | | | Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire quotes Procopius in describing one of her lewd practises which involved barley grains, servants and geese. |
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| | IFILM - Evita - Reviews |
| | As for Eva Peron herself I couldn't help thinking of the 6th century Theodora, who rose from a doubtful background to become the wife of the most powerful Byzantine emperor of the early Middle Ages. | | | This film has raised Madonna in my estimation. | | | I hadn't realized she was capable of this kind of performance. |
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| | Theodora (6th century) 14: s that exist to this day in the Church of San Vitule at Ravenna in northern Italy, which was |
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| | Sri Lanka Introduction 2004 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ... |
| | Occupied by the Portuguese in the 16th century and by the Dutch in the 17th century, the island was ceded to the British in 1796, became a crown colony in 1802, and was united under British rule by 1815. | | | In the 14th century, a south Indian dynasty seized power in the north and established a Tamil kingdom. | | | Buddhism was introduced beginning in about the mid-third century B.C., and a great civilization developed at the cities of Anuradhapura (kingdom from circa 200 B.C. to circa 1000 A.D.) and Polonnaruwa (from about 1070 to 1200). |
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| | Qur'an 96: sal, for instance, was that they were initials or Monogarms of the scribes that had originally written the su | | | On them had been carved the Monograks of Justinian and Theodora (6th century), even | | | Although today the word art usually refers to the visualarts, the concept of what At is has continuously changed over centuries. |
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| | The History of Costume - Text Index #1 |
| | Plate #40 - Late Sixteenth Century - Germany | | | Plate #17 - Thirteenth Century - German and Italian | | | Plate #16 - Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries - Military and Religious Orders |
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| | Justinian I |
| | With able generals, such as Belisarius and Narses, and under the guidance of his powerful and cunning wife, Theodora, Justinian wrested North Africa from the Vandals and Italy from the Goths, finally reuniting the eastern and western empires. | | | The Justinian Code, as it became known, served as the basis for much of European law for many centuries. | | | Justinian I is famous for reuniting the eastern and western halves of the Roman Empire in the 6th century, albeit temporarily, but more importantly he implemented one of the greatest and enduring codifications of law in history. |
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