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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/John the Cappadocian
		John the Cappadocian was a prefect in the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Justinian I.
		John was appointed to lead the first commission on Justinian's new legal code, the Corpus Juris Civilis, and became Justinian's chief legal advisor.
		John worked with the emperor to reduce the size of the bureaucracy, both in Constantinople and in the provinces, developing a rudimentary meritocracy.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/John_the_Cappadocian (281 words)

	John I of Byzantium - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		After helping his uncle Nicephorus Phocas to obtain the throne and to restore the empire's eastern provinces he was deprived of his command by an intrigue, upon which he retaliated by conspiring with Nicephorus' wife Theophania to assassinate him.
		Elected ruler in his stead, John proceeded to justify his usurpation by the energy with which he repelled the foreign invaders of the empire.
		John's surname was apparently derived from the Armenian tshemshkik (red boot).
	92.1911encyclopedia.org /John_I_of_Byzantium (232 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John the Faster
		Under the Patriarch John III (Scholasticus, 565-577) he was deacon at the Hagia Sophia church; then he became sakellarios (an official who acts as patriarchal vicar for monasteries).
		In the correspondence that ensued John assumed this title of œcumenical patriarch "in almost every line" of his letter (Epp., V, xviii, in P. Gregory protested vehemently against it in a long correspondence addressed first to John, then to the Emperor Maurice, the Empress Constantina, and others.
		Another dispute between John and Gregory was about some relics, especially the head of St. Paul, that the Court of Constantinople wanted the pope to send to them.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08493a.htm (1753 words)

	John the Faster
		The dispute about the title was this: it was not new in John IV's time; till then the Bishop of Constantinople had commonly been called 'archiepískopos daì patriárches, but at various times he (and other patriarchs) had been addressed as o'ikoumenikòs patriárches.
		Whether John IV or other patriarchs of Constantinople really meant to advance so arrogant a claim is another question.
		The works in Migne attributed to John the Faster [a treatise on Confession (P. G., LXXXVIII, 1889-1918), a shorter work on the same subject (ibid., 1919-1932), "Of Penance, Temperance, and Virginity" (ibid., 1937-1978)] are not authentic.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/j/john_the_faster.html (1695 words)

	John of Cappadocia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John or Joannes II, surnamed Cappadox or Cappadocia, less commonly known as John the Cappadocian, Patriarch of Constantinople, (517 - 520), appointed by Anastasius after an enforced condemnation of the Council of Chalcedon.
		John wrote to John III of Jerusalem and to Epiphanius of Tyre, telling them the good news of the acclamations and the synod.
		John wrote saying that he received the four general councils, and that the names of Leo and of Hormisdas himself had been put in the diptychs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_of_Cappadocia (1107 words)

	The Byzantine Empire
		Thus the danger was temporarily averted, and the Emperor John Vatatzes was wise enough to gain the favour of the Bulgarian powers by prudent deference to their wishes, as, for instance, by recognizing the Archbishop of Tirnovo as autocephalous patriarch.
		John Vatatzes, however, succeeded in parrying the blow by forming an alliance with the Emperor Frederick II, whose daughter Anne he espoused.
		When the unfortunate Emperor John V, after hastening to the papal court at Avignon to obtain assistance for Constantinople, was on his homeward journey, he was detained at Venice by creditors who had furnished the money for the journey.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/b/byzantine_empire.html (16898 words)

	HARVEY: Theodora the "Believing Queen": A Study in Syriac Historiographical Tradition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thus John indicates that many of the faithful arriving in the imperial city were already known to the empress by reputation, and that she received these arrivals not as tattered exiles but as honorable guests of state.
		Theirs was, John tells us, "active work performed by them during the same persecution, by the instigation and the command of the believing Theodora the queen."45 John refers to hospitals and other charitable institutions founded by Theodora;46 he mentions the ceremonial conduct attending her every activity.
		The particular texturing of John of Ephesus' portrayal, with its emphasis on daily piety and devotional veneration, was of an empress whose orthodoxy was unquestionable.
	syrcom.cua.edu /Hugoye/Vol4No2/HV4N2Harvey.html (7366 words)

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		Michael Maas, John Lydus and the Roman Past: Antiquarianism and Politics in the Age of Justinian.
		In 532 John the Cappodocian was sacked as Praetorian Prefect and Phocas, who comes across as a hero in Lydus' De Magistratibus, was given the job.
		Procopius in his Persian War says that John the Cappadocian muttered pagan prayers under his breath while in church and in 579 even a Patriarch of Antioch was accused of performing pagan rites.
	www.und.ac.za /und/classics/93-6maas.html (874 words)

	Procopius, The Secret History (with commentary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Four years later, she was able to find two members of the Green party who had taken part in the insurrection at Cyzicus, and who were said to have shared in the assault upon the bishop.
		These two she overwhelmed with flattery and threats, and one of them, inspired by her promises, accused John of the murder; while the other utterly refused to be an accomplice in this libel, even when he was so injured by the torture that he seemed about to die on the spot.
		Consequently for all her efforts she was unable to cause john's death on this pretext.
	www.isidore-of-seville.com /library-procopius/secrethistory-77.htm (379 words)

	John of Ephesus, Ecclesiastical History, Part 3 -- Book 1
		For John Scholasticus was more of a lawyer than a theologian, and a thorough man of the world; and no sooner therefore had the health of Justin failed, and John was free to carry out his plans, than he determined upon crushing the whole Monophysite party.
		And when John of Sirmin heard of him, he sent at once into Asia, and brought him bound and in chains to Constantinople, and imprisoned him in his palace in sore misery: and 15 by bonds and many tortures he forced him to submit to receive the communion at his hands.
		John Grammaticus is the same as John Philoponus, the latter title being given him from his industry, the former from his profession.
	www.tertullian.org /fathers/ephesus_1_book1.htm (10406 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Justinian
		John the Cappadocian, dismissed as praetorian prefect during the 'Nika' riot but soon reinstated, advised against it.
		John Troglita's achievement is memorialized by the Johannid, an epic written swiftly by an African schoolmaster, Corippus, who presumably got to Constantinople as a reward, for he was there to write a panegyric on the accession of Justin II when Justinian died.
		He argued that John, insubordinate though he might have been, could not be abandoned to the Goths, and a message arrived from John himself saying that Rimini could not last any longer than another week.
	www.roman-emperors.org /justinia.htm (9963 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Theodora
		John is a friendly witness for he looked on Theodora as the protector of the Monophysites and the fact that the words appear in Greek in his Syriac text may indicate that he is simply reproducing without malice a sobriquet from the Constantinople streets.
		On her instructions, Antonina intimated to John's naïve daughter that Belisarius was unhappy and ready to rebel, and that he would welcome John as a fellow conspirator.
		His Life, attributed to John of Ephesus, relates how he came to Constantinople, and met Theodora who had already seen him in a dream and was given a dwelling by her where he met a large number of the faithful, among them the Ghassanid sheikh, al-Harith.
	www.roman-emperors.org /dora.htm (6013 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John had been dead for five years at the time of his condemnation, and the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 restored his good name.
		John also wrote poetry and revised the Octoechoes, the cycle of eight weekly tones around which Byzantine worship centers.
		Of John's 150 works, the most famous is The Source of Knowledge (also translated as The Fount of Wisdom), which some consider to have been the first summa since it was taken as a model of systematic theology.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/damascene.html (231 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.02.12
		The first two chapters therefore revolve around John and the dashing of his high hopes when John the Cappadocian tears down the judicial side of the praetorian prefecture's administrative apparatus.
		His readings of John Lydus and analogous sources show clearly how the identity of an imperial bureaucrat invariably saw individual ambition mediated through corporate pride in bureau, which in turn mitigated and legitimized the expression of ambition.
		John Lydus, however, comes very late in the process by which bureaucratic power and exclusivity were created, and by setting him at the start of his story, Kelly may risk creating an implicit teleology of late Roman bureaucracy.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-02-12.html (2140 words)

	Byzantine Glory : Byzantine Emperors :: Justinian I : internal affairs and the Church
		John was praetorian prefect from 531 to 541, Peter from 543.
		The first important reform was the prohibition of the suffragia, or sale of provincial governorships, in 535, for it was clear that new governors' desire to recoup the heavy initial expense of purchasing their office accounted for much extortion inflicted by them upon the provincial populaces.
		Under both John and his successor, Peter Barsymes, finance was of primary concern, since wars and subsidies to foreign powers and barbarian rulers were expensive.
	www.neobyzantine.org /byzantium/emperors/justinian/justinian2.php (1567 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.06.11
		Cappadocian Caesarea retains its eminence over Tyana in the conciliar lists as late as 553, suggesting that eventual subordination to Constantinople did not deprive it of its ancient place of honor.
		M explores the development of new bishops in the region, the urban identity of most "orthodox" Cappadocian martyrs (except Mamas), the status and devolution of the chorepiscopate, and the power of heretical communities that continued virtually unchecked throughout the countryside.
		Cappadocian monks were rarely hermits; they might leave Cappadocian monasteries for the stricter ascesis of the Judeaen and Egyptian desert, but remain in communities.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2006/2006-06-11.html (2410 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Byzantine Empire
		John the Apostle, a suffragan of his patriarchate.
		Her extravagance and vindictiveness — for she had enemies, among them John the Cappadocian the great financial minister so indispensable to Justinian —; may well have cost the emperor many an uneasy hour, but there was never any lasting breach.
		The conquest of the East by the Arabs, in the seventh century brought a cessation of this movement towards the differentiation of the East into separate nations — a cessation which, to be sure, involved for most of the Syrian and Egyptian Christians the loss of their faith.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03096a.htm (16908 words)

	Index of Patristic Essays and Studies
		A study of the Cappadocian Fathers' understanding of human knowledge of God as a process of conceptualisation (epinoia) based on the perception (ennoia) of God's energies.
		A study of the Cappadocian conception of human nature as evidenced in St Basil's 38th epistle, and their use of the human nature model as a basis for a conception of the Trinity.
		A study on the threefold role of Christ in the salvation of humankind, as it is expounded and understood by the great bishop of Alexandria; namely, the roles of Christ as He who is sacrificed, who sanctifies, and who saves the fallen world.
	www.monachos.net /patristics/studies.shtml (699 words)

	History of the Wars/Book IV - Wikisource
		The left wing was held by Martinus and Valerian, John, Cyprian, Althias, and Marcellus, and as many others as were commanders of the foederati[3]; and the right was held by Pappas, Barbatus, and Aïgan, and the others who commanded the forces of cavalry.
		And since the wound was mortal, John passed away a short time afterwards, leaving great sorrow at his loss to the Emperor Justinian and Belisarius, the general, and to all the Romans and Carthaginians.
		And the soldiers no longer pressed the pursuit of Gelimer, but they cared for John as long as he survived, and when he had died they carried out all the customary rites in his burial, and reporting the whole matter to Belisarius they remained where they were.
	en.wikisource.org /wiki/History_of_the_Wars/Book_IV (16956 words)

	Amazon.com: John Lydus and the Roman Past: Books: Michael Maas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Lydus, a retired official at Justinian's court in the mid-sixth century, is an important, neglected source for the study of the fate of the classical legacy in the newly Christianized Roman empire, Byzantium.
		Praetorian Prefecture, John the Cappadocian, Master of Horse, Polemius Silvius, Master of Offices, Peter the Patrician, Diocese of Asia, Emperor Leo, John of Amida, Justinian's Prefect, Justinianic Constantinople, Mar Aba
		John is known from three extant works: De Magistratibus (On the Magistracies), De Mensibus (On the Months), and De Ostentis (On Signs).
	www.amazon.com /John-Lydus-Roman-Past-Michael/dp/0415060214 (1386 words)

	- Chapter 26
		John of Cappadocia's final treachery, when it came, was brutally simple.
		John dodged the spittle, then returned the Empress' contempt with a cheerful smile, before turning his gaze to Justinian.
		John of Cappadocia was famous for his sneer.
	www.baen.com /Library/0671878859/0671878859__26.htm (3672 words)

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		John, the son of Sisinniolus, was especially averse to taking the field, out of the hatred which he bore to Sergius, until Areobindus arrived in Libya.
		Chosroes kept this John a prisoner, and refused to let him go, declaring that the Romans had not performed all the terms of the treaty for which John had been given in pledge by Belisarius, but he was prepared to let him be ransomed as a prisoner of war.
		Not long after this John fell ill and died; whereupon the governor of the city forged a letter which he said John had written to him as a friend not long before, to the effect that he desired the Emperor to succeed to his property.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/2/9/1/12916/12916.txt (17176 words)

	Byzantine Warfare in the Sixth Century
		John Malalas wrote a chronicle covering events from Adam to at least AD 565.
		Malalas was born around 490 and was probably an imperial bureaucrat in Antioch, and later on in Constantinople.
		The emperor immediately summoned the Phrygian Patricius, the magistri militum and John, the son of Valeriana, and told them to prepare an attack against Vitalian across the water, and to take fast ships and soldiers.
	www.deremilitari.org /RESOURCES/SOURCES/malalas.htm (2946 words)

	Truth Or Lies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Now when the Emperor and Theodora dismissed John of Cappadocia, they wished to appoint a successor to his office, and agreed to choose a still baser rogue; so they looked everywhere for such an instrument of tyranny, examining all manner of men that they might be able to ruin their subjects the faster.
		So Theodotus, who had succeeded the Cappadocian, was straightway removed from office and Peter appointed in his place; and he did everything to their taste.
		Now John had an uncle in Constantinople named Eudemon, of consular rank and great wealth, who was at the time Count of the imperial estates.
	www.cassiopaea.org /cass/truth_or_lies_7b.htm (15865 words)

	Secret History Chapter 17
		The father of the baby, seeing that Theodora was at her wit's end and vexed because motherhood interfered with her usual recreations, and suspecting with good reason that she would do away with the child, took the infant from her, naming him John, and sailed with the baby to Arabia.
		Later, when he was on the verge of death and John was a lad of fourteen, the father told him the whole story about his mother.
		And they, not conceiving the possibility of her acting so inhumanly, reported to the mother that her son John had come.
	www.earth-history.com /Europe/Secret/procopius-17.htm (1603 words)

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