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The Prophesied Emperor - Philippicus Bardanes, Monothelitism, and the Fall of the Heraclian Dynasty

The Prophesied Emperor - Philippicus Bardanes, Monothelitism, and the Fall of the Heraclian Dynasty

Mullins, Arthur

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General World History

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ISBN13: 9798235311060
Publisher: Silverback Books
Pages: 452
Weight: 1.14
Height: 1.01 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In November 711, a rebel fleet crossed the Black Sea and an empire changed hands in days. The man who stepped ashore at Constantinople - born Bardanes, now calling himself Philippicus - carried a prophetic commission two decades old, a theological programme thirty years delayed, and the absolute certainty that God had chosen him to reverse the most consequential ecclesiastical verdict of the previous century. What followed was nineteen months of concentrated catastrophe: a Monothelite revolution that alienated the Orthodox establishment, a Roman schism that severed the Western church, Bulgarian cavalry devastating the Thracian countryside to the walls of the capital, Arab armies capturing interior cities that the empire's thematic defences were supposed to make unreachable, and finally a military conspiracy that ended the reign with hot iron applied in the palace on the night before Pentecost.

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