16 The Roman Church and its Bishops

Sessa, Kristina

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“…72 The papacy had been in regular contact with the eastern Roman government since the early 530s, and a papal representative, the apocrisarius, had been based at Constantinople since the end of the Acacian schism in 519. 73 Significantly, Popes Boniface II (530-2) and Agapetus (535-6) asserted papal rights over Illyricum in communications with Justinian in 532 and August 535. 74 They did so having been asked to intervene in a dispute concerning the see of Larissa, whose bishop had been deposed by the patriarch of Constantinople in 531.…”

Section: Anti-gothic Propaganda In Novella 11mentioning

confidence: 99%

Justinian's Novella 11: memory and political propaganda in the build up to the Gothic War

Sarantis

2019

Early Medieval Europe

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This paper will examine memories of a fourth‐ to fifth‐century western Balkan past in Justinian's Novella 11. Announcing the appointment of a new northern Illyrian archbishop at the city of Justiniana Prima, this decree refers nostalgically to an earlier period of late antiquity, prior to the invasions of Attila, when Sirmium, rather than Justiniana Prima, had been the administrative and ecclesiastical capital of Illyricum. Published in April 535, on the eve of the Gothic War, it thus suggested that Gothic‐held Sirmium belonged to the eastern Roman state. In this way it contradicted rival political propaganda emanating from the Gothic kingdom of Italy, according to which it was the rightful Roman heir to the western Balkans.

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Section: Anti-gothic Propaganda In Novella 11mentioning

confidence: 99%