2003/01/01 by Mikaël Nichanian, Vivien Prigent · 85 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Byzantine Studies and History #Historical and Religious Studies of Rome #Medieval History and Crusades #Governor #Ravenna #Byzantine architecture #Humanities #Political science #Empire #Politics #Art #Ancient history #Geography #History #Law
paper · doi:10.3406/rebyz.2003.2273
published in Revue des études byzantines 61(1), 97-141 (Peeters)
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The authors' study has revealed a high proportion of patricii and eunuques amongst the governors of Sicily in the eighth century. This as well as a similar tendency amongst the exarchs of Italy attests to the close links between the Cubiculum and the Western territories of the empire. With the fall of Ravenna in 751 and the end of the Muslim threat to Sicily at about the same time the governor of Sicily succeeded to the exarch. The office took on a diplomatic dimension, the governor being charged with the main political responsibility in Byzantine Italy.