Theoderic’s visit to Rome in 500
Liberius served as praetorian prefect until Theoderic’s visit to Rome in 500, when he stepped down, but even then he always stayed in touch...
In all Theoderic’s years
Some of these families we know well enough to strike up an acquaintance, as the generations lead one into another for at least one...
The World That Might Have Been
We must enter Theoderic’s theater with appropriate reverence for the stately performance he will stage for us, and with keen-eyed skepticism, determined, as if...
Shrinking dramatically
The urban landscape of the Greco-Roman world had traditionally emphasized the public and the monumental. By the sixth century, cities in the west were...
A slave named Proiectus
For one rich man who died in the mid-sixth century, we have an inventory of his household property taken before it was knocked down...
THE VIEW FROM ALEXANDRIA
The Alexandria that Cosmas and Philoponos knew as a home of mer¬chants, philosophers, monks, and more had been a place of civilization,
contention, and shortsightedness...
Just a Christian
He, “just a Christian,” as he described himself, was shocked by the existence of “false Christians” who did not understand how the world isconstructed,...
Michael V Part 25
Book Five Notes
64. The Guardian of the Orphans was banished to the monastery of Monobatae. Cedrenus (749D) has a different account. According to him...
Michael V Part 24
49. When the executioner tried to tie him down, to prevent him moving at the moment of blinding, he said, ‘Look you. If you...
Michael V Part 23
47. Actually they had already left the church, and a shameful reception awaited them outside. The rabble made fun of them, naturally enough under...
