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- Theodora (6th century) (3433 bytes)
2: ... and the wife of Emperor [[Justinian I]]. Along with her husband, she is a [[saint]] in the [[Eastern...
6: ... in charge of courting the Monophysites' reunion with the [[Chalcedonian]] party in the Church, and so...
8: ...], her advice and leadership for a strong (and militant) response caused the riot to be quelled and pr...
10: ...t in Justinian's efforts to reconcile the Monophysites to orthodoxy.
12: ...[[divorce]] cases, allowing women to own and inherit property, and enacting the [[death penalty]] for ... - Mosaic (6524 bytes)
3: ...of mosaic from [[Herculaneum]] depicting [[Amphitrite]]]]
12: ...lae'') or of colored glass or clear glass backed with metal foils, are used to create a pattern or pic...
16: ...as across north Africa. In Rome, Nero and his architects innovated the extension of refined mosaics to...
18: ...venna]] and its territories in [[Sicily]], and in its late rival [[Venice]], where mosaic encrusts the...
20: ...ges, also popular in the [[Eastern Orthodox]] tradition, and extending to Russia, where Moscow claimed... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
10: | Constantine makes Constantinople his capital.
13: | The Empire is permanently split into Eastern and Western halves, following the de...
21: | Justinian's generals reconquer North Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Ostrogoths]].
24: ...Lombard]] invasion results in the loss of most of Italy.
29: ...emaining Italian territories, aside from some territories in the south. - Pope Innocent I (2364 bytes)
1: ...called by the unanimous voice of the clergy and laity to succeed (he had been born before his father's...
3: ...on to [[Flavius Augustus Honorius|Honorius]] at [[Ravenna]] at the time of the sack in [[410]].
5: ...n [[416]], which had been sent to him, and also writing in the same year in a similar sense to the fat...
7: ...olic Church is commemorated as a confessor along with Saints [[Nazarius]], [[Celsus]], and [[Victor]],... - Pope John I (1137 bytes)
3: Despite his protests, he was sent by the [[arianism|Aria...
5: ...spired with Emperor Justin. He was imprisoned at Ravenna, where he died of neglect and ill treatment.
7: His body was transported to [[Rome, Italy|Rome]] and buried in the [[Basilica of St. Pet...
9: ...deacon]] and a [[subdeacon]]. He is venerated at Ravenna and in [[Tuscany]]. - Pope Boniface V (3289 bytes)
5: ...nced towards Rome, but before he could reach the city, he was slain by his own troops.
7: ...e to translate the relics of [[Martyr#In_Christianity|martyrs]] and that, in the [[Basilica di San Gio...
9: ...ia]] (625), urging him to embrace the Christian faith; and to the Christian Princess [[Ethelberga]], E...
17: *Hunt, William. ''The English Church from Its Foundation to the Norman Conquest''. Vol. 1. "A ...
18: *Jaff鬠''Regesta Pontificum Romanorum ab condita ecclesia ad annum 1198''. Berlin, 1851; 2d ed.,... - Pope John IV (2299 bytes)
1: ...t to an Emperor Heraclius for Christian teachers. It is supposed that the emperor to whom this message...
4: ...ated the attempt to connect the name of Honorius with Monothelism. Honorius, he declared, in speaking ... - Pope Donus (1379 bytes)
5: ... [[autocephalous]] status and return to the authority of Rome.
7: Relations with [[Constantinople]] tended towards the conciliato...
11: ...ict VI]]. The name comes from a confusion of the title ''domnus'' (''dominus'') and the Roman name ''D... - Pope Leo II (1357 bytes)
1: ...se occurs, the milder expression ''subverti permisit'' is used for ''subvertare conatus est''.
3: ...s pontificate that the dependence of the see of [[Ravenna]] upon that of Rome was finally settled by imperi... - Pope Gregory III (1999 bytes)
4: ...er control. This included appropriating papal territories, and transferring ecclesiastical jurisdictio...
5: ...rtel]], who made no response, having his own priorities. - Pope Zacharias (1925 bytes)
1: ...labria]], appears to have been on intimate terms with [[Pope Gregory III|Gregory III]], whom he succee...
3: ...ariety of emergencies that the [[exarch]]ate of [[Ravenna]] was rescued from becoming a Lombard duchy.
5: ...tine]] [[emperor]] [[Constantine VII]] Porphyrogenitos on the part he had taken in the [[Iconoclasm|ic... - Pope Stephen III (1340 bytes)
3: ...ne with the power?" Stephen agreed that the one with the power should be King of the Franks. Pepin de...
5: ...nd delivered the territory between [[Rome]] and [[Ravenna]] to the papacy, but left the Lombard kings in po... - Pope Paul I (2040 bytes)
1: ...s brother, [[Pope Stephen III]], in negotiations with the Lombard kings.
3: ...ombard king, [[Desiderius]]. The latter held the cities of [[Imola]], [[Osimo]], [[Bologna]], and [[An...
5: ... Pepin gave the pope some support and acted as arbiter between the Roman and Lombard claims.
7: ...ctually attempted, but Pepin held to his original Italian policy. - Pope Adrian I (2590 bytes)
3: ...ius]], king of the [[Lombards]], and Adrian found it necessary to invoke the aid of the [[Franks|Frank...
4: ...[[Adriatic]] coast from [[Rimini]] to [[Ancona]] with the coastal plain as far as the mountains.
6: ...or [[the Virgin Mary]], or [[saint|saints]]. Notwithstanding this, a synod, held at [[Frankfurt]] in ...
8: ...was the longest papacy since [[Saint Peter]], and it would remain so until he was surpassed by the 24-... - Pope John IX (941 bytes)
1: ...e Formosus|Formosus]], but at a council held at [[Ravenna]] decreed that the records of the [[synod]] which...
3: ...between the empire and the papacy, John gave unhesitating support to [[Lambert of Spoleto|Lambert]] in... - Pope John X (1367 bytes)
1: ...see of Bologna and then to the archbishopric of [[Ravenna]].
3: ...st his temporal enemies through a close alliance with Theophylact and [[Alberic]], marquis of [[Cameri...
5: ...rustrated the hopes of a united Italy, and after witnessing several years of anarchy and confusion Joh... - Pope Silvester II (8276 bytes)
1: ...entury]]. He introduced [[Arab]] knowledge of [[arithmetic]] and [[astronomy]] to [[Europe]]. He was t...
5: ...of [[Barcelona]] and possibly in the [[Islam]]ic cities of [[Cordoba, Spain|Cba]] and [[Seville]].
7: ...el made a pilgrimage to [[Rome]], taking Gerbert with him. Gerbert there met pope [[John XIII]] and th...
11: ...nvolved in the politics of his time. In [[985]], with the support of his archbishop, he opposed [[Loth...
13: ...a further synod in [[995]] declared Arnulf's deposition invalid. - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
2: ...l]] virtues of [[Chivalry]], [[Piety]] and [[Humility]]).
5: ...aimed his mother was a [[Paris]]ien and that the city was also the place of his birth, this has been l...
7: ...fellow-Florentine [[Niccolo Acciaiuoli]] and benefitted from his influence as lover of [[Catherine of ...
9: ...he 1330s Boccaccio also became a father, two illegitimate children of his were born in this time, Mari...
11: ...a di Diana'' a poem in octave rhyme listing Neopolitan women. - Carthage (20744 bytes)
1: ...age (near modern [[Tunis]]). The map also shows [[Italy]] and the islands of [[Sicily]], [[Sardinia]],...
3: ...om the center of modern [[Tunis]] in [[Tunisia]]. It remains a popular [[tourist]] attraction.
6: ...tion myths have survived through Greek and Roman literature.
8: ...]]. Meanwhile, under a leader named Malchus, the city began a systematic conquest of both the African ...
10: ...nfluence had also spread into the Mediterranean, with control over [[Sardinia]], [[Malta]], the [[Bale... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
3: ...Ancient Roman]] polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian ...
5: ...an Empire]]. The end of the Western Empire is traditionally set in [[476]], when [[Odovacar]] deposed ...
9: ...and ornate imperial ritual. We now know that the situation was far more nuanced: certain historical fo...
11: ...e adopted by successor states and other entities with imperial pretensions, including the [[Frankish]]...
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