The power game in Byzantium Antonina and the Empress Theodora
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 continue...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London, New York
Continuum
c2011
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| Online Zugang: | Autorenbiografie Inhaltsverzeichnis Verlagsangaben |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-255) and index Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:c2011 |
| Beschreibung: | XVI, 264 S. Ill., Kt. 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 1441140786 1-4411-4078-6 9781441140784 978-1-4411-4078-4 |