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Christ Pantocrator

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Description: Early Christian and Byzantine Art
The late sixth and seventh centuries were times of great trouble and unrest. In 586 the Lombards invaded Italy – the first barbaric horde to arrive with no kind of imperial sanction. In vain the Pope appealed for help to the Emperor. Pope Pelagius II (579–90) sent the deacon Gregory, later Pope Gregory the Great (590–603), to Constantinople with instructions to haunt the palace night and day, but the imperial administration acting for Justin II, who was mad, and later the Emperor Maurice …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.146-159
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00042.007

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