The Power Game in Byzantium Antonina and the Empress Theodora

by Evans, James Allan

• ISBN13: 9781441140784
• ISBN10: 1441140786
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-22
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The first biography of Nikolaus Pevsner, the best known and most important architectural historian of the twentieth-century.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. iX
Preface	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xvii
The Background to the Story	p. 1
The Scum of Society	p. 32
The Rise to Power	p. 48
The Remarkable Career of the Young Belisarius	p. 63
Antonina in Love	p. 82
Victory and Defeat in the Ecclesiastical Arena	p. 104
Theodoras Riposte	p. 121
The Fall of John the Cappadocian	p. 141
The Theodosius and Antonina Affair Continued	p. 153
Plague and Intrigue	p. 158
Theodora Fosters an Anti-Chalcedonian Church	p. 169
The Agony of Italy	p. 179
Postlude: The Ending of the Era of Reconquest	p. 201
Appendix- Two Contemporary Witnesses: Procopius and John of Ephesus	p. 211
Notes	p. 219
Sources	p. 243
Bibliography	p. 245
Index	p. 257
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