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	Theodora (6th century) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Theodora was born into the lowest class of Byzantine society, the daughter of Acacius, a bear keeper for the circus.
		In 523 Theodora married Justinian, the magister militum praesentalis in Constantinople.
		Theodora also advocated the rights of married women to commit adultery, and the rights of women to be socially serviced, helping to advance protections and delights for them; and was also something of a voice for prostitutes and the downtrodden.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theodora_(6th_century) (711 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Theodora
		The death of the emperor Anastasius in 518 and the accession of Justin I marked the end of a period of tolerance and accommodation for the Monophysite heresy,[[3]] and the Monophysite monks and churchmen in the eastern provinces faced a tidal wave of persecution.
		Theodora enjoyed the perquisites of imperial power, and her marriage with Justinian, which seems to have been a union of mutual respect, was so unusual by contemporary standards that it provoked reactions which reveal as much about the mind-set of the times as about the married couple.
		Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople proclaims her as the 'God-crowned Theodora whose mind is adorned with piety and whose constant toil lies in unsparing efforts to nourish the destitute.'[[11]] She shut down brothels in the capital and removed the prostitutes to a convent on the Asian side of the Dardanelles called the Metanoia (Repentance).
	www.roman-emperors.org /dora.htm (6013 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Justinian
		Theodora had been one of three daughters of the bearkeeper employed by the Green faction in the Hippodrome, and her mother was a professional dancer and actress.
		When Theodora's father died, her mother remarried and hoped that the Greens would appoint her new husband bearkeeper, for in the bearkeepers' guild positions usually passed from father to son, but the decision belonged to the lead pantomime dancer to make and he was bribed to appoint someone else.
		Theodora died of cancer in 548 and her death left the regime less sensitive to the psyche of the dissidents and perhaps more high-handed in its search for solution to the endless contention between Chalcedonian and Monophysite.
	www.roman-emperors.org /justinia.htm (9963 words)

	Copyright 2005 MYTHOLOG
		century: The Franks install the first Frankish pope, who promptly commands the use of the altered Creed (1014), and results in the removal of the Bishop in the See of Rome from the dyptichs in the East (the prayers that venerate Christian Bishops as such).
		Theodora: Mother of Michael III and Regent of the empire during his youth.
		Theodora endeavoured in vain to combat Bardas's authority; in 855 she was displaced from her regency at his prompting, and being subsequently convicted of intrigues against him was relegated to a monastery.” Not the Empress Theodora Augusta of the 6
	www.mytholog.com /poetry/mosaic.html (1117 words)

	St. Catherine's Monastery (Sinai) - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the 9th century, the site was associated with St. Catherine of Alexandria (whose relics were miraculously transported there) and it became a favourite site for pilgrimages.
		The wood roof of the nave, also of 6th century construction, rests on beams that bear inscriptions honoring Justinian and his famous wife Theodora.
		Theodora died in 548 and Justinian in 565, so that the church was completed between those years.
	orthodoxwiki.org /St._Catherine's_Monastery_(Sinai) (1094 words)

	Ataman Hotel - Theodora
		Theodora was the wife of Justinian I who was crowned Emperor of the Byzantine Empire in 527 AD.
		Throughout the rest of her life, Theodora and Justinian transformed the city of Constantinople, building it into a city that for many centuries was known as the most wonderful cities in the world.
		Her body was buried in the Church of the Holy Apostle, one of the splendid churches that she and Justinian had built in Constantinople.
	www.atamanhotel.com /theodora.html (897 words)

	PHOENICIAN ARTS - Mosaics, wall murals, decorative tiles, marble mosaic
		Polychrome scenes of the late 2nd and early 1st centuries BC are among the earliest mosaics at Pompeii.
		Early examples of the 5th and 6th centuries are found in cities somewhat removed from the capital city of Constantinople (present-day İstanbul).
		The Dome of the Rock was built in the late 7th century and is decorated with floral mosaics depicting acanthus leaves, palm trees, cornucopias, vases, and tree-of-life motifs.
	www.phoenicianarts.com /history.asp (1512 words)

	TIMELINE 6th CENTURY page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is the century of Justinian, the devastation of Italy and the ruin of the city of Rome itself (conquered five times during a thirty-year span and losing most of its population).
		6th Century: 14 Popes 27 December 537 Patriarch Menas consecrated the magnificent church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
		Google's cache of The Sixth Century 587 A synod meeting in Constantinople ascribed the title "Ecumenical Patriarch" to John VI of Constantinople because it was the capital of the "ecumenical" empire.
	www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/timeline6.html (8032 words)

	Destruction of Cultural and Historic Sites in Yugoslavia
		Vrdnik Monastery on Fruska Gora Mountain, built in the 16th century, which once housed the relics of St. Prince Lazar, was repeatedly bombed and the walls of the church are left cracked, and its windows destroyed.
		The nearby Novo Hopovo Monastery, built in the 16th century, significant for its fresco paintings and the iconostasis by the famous Serbian baroque painter, Kracun, suffered severe damage to the vaults, arches and frescoes.
		The Presentation of the Virgin Monastery, from the 15th century, was robbed and burned by the KLA.
	www.iacenter.org /warcrime/9_cultur.htm (1599 words)

	Royalty.nu - Byzantine Empire - Emperor Justinian the Great and Empress Theodora
		The story of the 6th century emperor who attempted to revive the Roman Empire in Byzantium after the fall of Rome to the Goths and Vandals.
		Procopius and the Sixth Century by Averil Cameron.
		When an entertainment for Theodora results in the death of a royal hostage and the disappearance of the empress's favorite dwarf, John the Eunuch is once again charged with ferreting out the truth.
	www.royalty.nu /history/empires/Byzantine/Justinian.html (906 words)

	In Italy Online - Byzantine Italy
		No one in his century (neither in Constantinople nor Rome) ever surpassed Maximianus's symbolic and iconological culture: he is the inspirer and enlightened theologian of all the S. Vitale mosaics and all the 6th century ones in S. Apollinare in Classe.
		he empress Theodora is in the centre: on the right, the imperial court matrons and on the left, in the palatial architecture, the figures of the male dignitaries serving the Byzantine empress.
		It is in fact, in the history of the 6th century, a synthesis of the Ostrogoth reign of Theodoric and the empire of Justinian.
	www.initaly.com /regions/byzant/byzant4.htm (11171 words)

	Templon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although classical drama was performed in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, during the 5th and 6th century when the first templa appear, when Christian liturgy was first being developed, the plays and their architecture had lost their importance and could not have influenced Christian ritual.
		As late as the 10th century, a simple wooden chancel barrier separated the apse from the nave in the rock-cut churches, though by the late 11th century, the templon had become standard.
		The late 12th century templon beam shows Twelve canonical feast scenes, with the Deesis located in the middle between the Transfiguration and the Raising of Lazarus, linking the scene of Lazarus with the Holy Week images according to liturgical practice.
	templon.iqnaut.net (1911 words)

	History of the Mass(hist19.htm)
		Though Benedict was never a priest, this humble and holy monk was the founding force behind an organization that evangelized Europe and which, in turn, brought the faith to every corner of the earth through extern offshoots of the Benedictines in the Franciscans, Jesuits and Dominicans.
		It was a century of liturgical blossoming as Holy Mother Church, despite the struggles against the Barbarian invasions and on-going heresies, began to assert her authority and influence in the Christian world.
		Theodora and Justinian retaliated by having him arrested while he was celebrating a papal Mass, but succeeded in escaping.
	www.dailycatholic.org /hist/hist19.htm (2088 words)

	St. Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
		The Monastery and its church are among the finest surviving examples of Byzantine architecture, housing collections of priceless Byzantine religious art and manuscripts.
		These inscriptions had been reported by travelers as far back as the 18th century, but not until the 1958 expedition was a careful study made of them in relation to the church structure.
		Careful study of the mosaic's surface revealed that it had not been seriously tampered with since its completion 1400 years ago and that centuries of incense and candle smoke had given it a beautiful patina of age.
	www.umich.edu /~kelseydb/Excavation/St_Catherine.html (749 words)

	Sri Lanka Introduction 2006 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		The Sinhalese arrived in Sri Lanka late in the 6th century B.C., probably from northern India.
		Buddhism was introduced beginning in about the mid-third century B.C., and a great civilization developed at the cities of Anuradhapura (kingdom from circa 200 B.C. to circa A.D. 1000) and Polonnaruwa (from about 1070 to 1200).
		In the 14th century, a south Indian dynasty seized power in the north and established a Tamil kingdom.
	www.theodora.com /wfbcurrent/sri_lanka/sri_lanka_introduction.html (214 words)

	2.html
		The Home of Judaism, 323 B.C.E.--500 C.E. After the conquest of much of the eastern Mediterranean world by Syrus the Great, creator of the Persian Empire, the Jews returned from their exile in Babylon (after 539 B.C.E.) to the region of Judah, which would later be known to the Greeks and Romans as Palestine.
		Over the next centuries, the Temple in Jerusalem would be rebuilt (the Second Temple) and the religion of Judaism formed around it.
		The inscription is dated to the 8th century by a reference in the last line to the era of the defunct Roman province of Arabia.
	www.andrew.cmu.edu /course/79-104/Readings/Gallery/2.html (823 words)

	Procopius Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the 5th century, became a lawyer.
		In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533 against the Vandals and in 535 against the Ostrogoths.
		So Justinian and Theodora ascended the imperial throne three days before Easter, a time, indeed, when even making visits or greeting one's friends is forbidden.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Procopius (485 words)

	goGreece.com: City Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Church of Agios Vassilios: A small 13th century edifice, whose facade is decorated with enamelled tiles and bricks set in a hound's tooth pattern.
		The vault is covered with mosaics, the sculptures are Italianate, and the icons (13th - 16th century) on the iconostasis and the frescoes in the narthex are superb.
		Panagia of Koronissia (in the village of the same name): Built in the 10th century, this church is all that remains of a once flourishing monastery.
	www.gogreece.com /travel/select.asp?CityID=43 (839 words)

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		An important change took place across the Christian world in the late sixth century, when images of Christ and other religious figures began to be treated as holy objects in their own right, not as mere representations, but an embodiment of the personality.
		A belief of the time held by both Byzantine political and theological leaders was that the problems, stated above, that plagued the following centuries were a message directly from God.
		843- Iconophile empress Theodora intervened and restored the
	www.students.sbc.edu /clarke04/iconoclasm1.html (1220 words)

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		This practice is evident in the 6th-century mosaic portrait of empress theodora in the church of san vitale in ravenna, italy.
		The term metaphysics is believed to have originated in rome about 70 bc, with the greek peripatetic philosopher andronicus of rhodes (flourished 1st century bc) in his edition of the works of aristotle.
		An individual will stake out an area that he continuously patrols as he awaits a passing female, moving from one resting point to another and finally returning to the first point.
	www.likeacat.com /Butterfly-Jewelryi.html (403 words)

	Icons
		Because of the iconoclastic struggle most icons before the ninth century were destroyed and now the earliest ones we have are from the fifth century.
		Finally through the empress Theodora, the veneration of icons was publicly re-established in 843.
		It took a while to recover from the iconoclastic persecution, so the development of icons was steady but slow in the ninth century.
	campus.udayton.edu /mary/resources/icon.html (1400 words)

	African Christianity
		Is is only in very recent years that excavations have been made in the northern part of the Sudan which have enabled us to discover the remains of a brilliant Black Civilization.
		In the sixth (6th) century, we have a letter written by St.
		Fulgentius of Ruspe entitled "Concerning the Salvation of an Ethiopian on the Point of Dying." The letter was in answer to one sent by Ferrandus, the deacon in charge of the Church at Carthage (today in Tunisia).
	www.holyangels.com /African-Christianity.htm (757 words)

	TIME.com: New Plays in Manhattan -- Feb. 12, 1934 -- Page 1
		Theodora, The Quean* (By Jo Milward and J. Kerby Hawkes; Jo Graham, producer) is a tedious transplantation of Pierre Louys' famed courtesan Aphrodite from pagan Alexandria to Byzantium of the 6th Century, as thoroughly papier-mache as the hollow helmets deposited on Theodora's dressing-table.
		She wants to be his wife but he, a onetime goat-herder, will have her only for occasional recreation.
		To save the Regent by ridiculing him, Theodora regales the circus mob with an account of his private conduct (offstage).
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,746939,00.html (590 words)

	Societas Christiana - A Blog About Church History and Historical Theology » 6th Century
		In the spring of the year of grace 527 Justinian became emperor, having been handed the crown by his uncle Justin who was too ill to continue governing.
		In 536 he had made a secret agreement with Empress Theodora to support Monophysitism if she would help him gain the Roman See.
		This arrangement did not materialize for a while, and when it did, Vigilius found that political expediency and the tremendous support for Chalcedon in the West prevented him from discharging his debt to the empress.
	www.societaschristiana.com /?cat=69 (2493 words)

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		In the later sixth and seventh centuries icons increased in importance, and an "iconic" style is apparent.
		Icon of Christ from Mt. Sinai, 6th century, probably copied the Chalke icon, which was destroyed during iconoclasm
		Period of decline in Byzantine fortunes during the seventh century.
	www.coloradocollege.edu /dept/AH/courses/AH208/7seventh.htm (467 words)

	Parapet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		And so it was known during the 6th century reign of the Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora, the novel
		On seeing a painting of the sacking of the mythic city of Troy, Heinrich Schliemann, still a boy, became convinced that he could locate and excavate the ruins of that ancient city, even though scholars of his time thought Troy a place that existed only in the Homer’s imagination.
		Since I was focused on Justinian and Theodora and their involvement in the orthodox Council of Constantinople in 553 AD, I was dismayed to find most Greek and Byzantine artifacts in disrepair after 600 years of Turkish rule.
	home.comcast.net /~vicsmith0123/Parapet.htm (1692 words)

	Bright Weavings: The Worlds of Guy Gavriel Kay - Bibliographies - The Sarantine Mosaic
		For me the easiest access for the general reader to the 6th century in Byzantium and Italy is Robert Browning's Justinian and Theodora, a popular history by a very substantial historian.
		Narrowing the focus again, there's real scholarship in Averil Cameron's Procopius and the Sixth Century (and once I mention Procopius I really should suggest having a look at his The Secret History which shows, among other things, how nasty historians could be.) Cameron's The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity covers the period between AD 395-600.
		Ernst Kitzinger is perhaps the most honoured name in the field, and his Byzantine Art in the Making covers the 3rd to the 7th centuries, though in a manner that may be too formal and detailed for anyone simply looking for an overview.
	www.brightweavings.com /bibliographies/bib_sarantine.htm (1108 words)

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