Word: theodora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johnson said there are enough manuscripts of known date to furnish plentiful clues to the poet's handwriting, and an exhaustive handwriting analysis has been prepared by Theodora van Wagenen Ward which has dated a poem within a given year...
When Belisarius and the Eunuch Narses conquered Italy for Justinian in 540, they re-established Ravenna as the Western capital of the Byzantine empire. Justinian and Theodora, his empress, ordered it suitably adorned. The rendering of Christ in armor for the Archbishop's Chapel, a rare phenomenon in art, may reflect the warlike nature of the Byzantines, who held the view that Christianity could and should be spread by the sword. But the Ravenna Christ looks more loving than awesome. A beardless youth, He lightly treads the lion and the serpent while presenting His eternal promise...
Sixth Century Constantinople (The Female, by Paul I. Wellman; Doubleday). One more version of the fascinating story of Theodora, the clever charmer who rose from a harlot in the Street of Women to become Justinian's wife and empress of the Byzantine Empire. Full of dancing girls, whores, eunuchs and Byzantine VIPs...
...scraps of brown paper). The lack of a master's and a doctorate, however, was never a handicap. Students flocked to his classes, crowded into his office in the afternoon, swarmed into his cluttered living room at night. There, with his wife ("Grandma") and daughter (Helena Ayesha Theodora), Monkey Wrench would entertain for hours. "Treat 'em like grownups," he would say of his students. "But remember, they're nothing but kids. You've got to be as young as they...
...Theodora and the Emperor is too glib to be taken with thorough seriousness, but it is thoroughly readable...