Justinianus Eponymus: Überlegungen zur letzten Glanzzeit kaiserlicher Namensverleihungen an Städte.
The emperor Justinian's (527-565) penchant for naming institutional bodies after himself is a well-known feature of his reign - not only to modern scholarship but already for his contemporaries. The present study takes a closer look at the cities which were conferred the name of Justinian and Theodo...
| Publicado en: | Byzantinische Zeitschrift Vol. 115; no. 1; pp. 287 - 341 |
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De Gruyter
Mar2022
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