At the turn of the seventh century the Roman Εmpire stretched from the Iberian peninsula to Mesopotamia. Its vast territory was inhabited by peoples of various ethnic, cultural, religious/confessional backgrounds, whom the imperial authorities strove to rule upon through an imperial Christian ideology, according to which Christianity and Romanness overlapped and the salvation of souls…
The seventh century was turbulent regarding Christological questions, such as Christ’s activities and wills. These controversies affected the entire Byzantine world, and the papacy also took part in them as a prominent spiritual leader of Christianity. Popes like Theodore I and Martin I were active participants, defending the teachings of Dyoenergism and Dyotheletism. The pontificate…
This paper examines the management of public buildings in Rome during the last part of the 6th and the mid 7th century, when the city, following Justinian’s the mid-6th-century conquest of the Ostrogothic Italian polity, was once again administered as an integral part of the Roman Empire. These decades were indeed a pivotal phase of…
The results obtained in 40 years (1981-2020) of the urban archaeology in the city of Valencia and after (2016-2024) in the València la Vella project introduce these archaeological sites into the scientific debate on the urban continuity and the forming of new cities in Late Antiquity Hispania. The finds of our research argue that the…