TY - CHAP
T1 - Travels of an exarch
T2 - Smaragdus and the Anastasian Walls
AU - Crow, James
PY - 2021/8/25
Y1 - 2021/8/25
N2 - The reconstruction was undertaken under the supervision of the renowned patrician Smaragdus, and he is the main subject of this chapter since some notion of his chronology may enable us to get a better idea when the works were carried out during the 31 years of Heraclius' rule. Authors now need to turn to the last recorded achievements of Smaragdus' career and to consider when he was called upon the direct the construction of what sixth-century sources refer to as the Wall of Constantinople. Similarly for Smaragdus if we start at the secure date of 584/5 when he was first attested as exarch and patrician, and set aside a slightly earlier Tiberius Constantine reference, a similar period brings us to 615, well into Heraclius' reign.
AB - The reconstruction was undertaken under the supervision of the renowned patrician Smaragdus, and he is the main subject of this chapter since some notion of his chronology may enable us to get a better idea when the works were carried out during the 31 years of Heraclius' rule. Authors now need to turn to the last recorded achievements of Smaragdus' career and to consider when he was called upon the direct the construction of what sixth-century sources refer to as the Wall of Constantinople. Similarly for Smaragdus if we start at the secure date of 584/5 when he was first attested as exarch and patrician, and set aside a slightly earlier Tiberius Constantine reference, a similar period brings us to 615, well into Heraclius' reign.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Italy-and-the-East-Roman-World-in-the-Medieval-Mediterranean-Empire-Cities/MacMaster-Matheou/p/book/9781138091313
U2 - 10.4324/9781315108094-5-8
DO - 10.4324/9781315108094-5-8
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781138091313
T3 - Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
SP - 97
EP - 108
BT - Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean
A2 - MacMaster, Thomas J.
A2 - Matheou, Nicholas S. M.
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -