Word: justinian
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...Whosoever toucheth the mount shall surely be put to death," said the Lord. For over 3,000 years, the occupiers of the Sinai peninsula, from Justinian to the Prophet Muhammed to Abdel Nasser and Golda Meir, took the site under their protection. Mount Sinai is enclosed in a convective divinity that is primitive and powerful. The mountain seems to gather thousands of years into a prismatic clarity. The Egyptian Ministry of Housing and Reconstruction, however, is not awed...
...very rare reproduction of the Code of Justinian which served as the basis of "all European law and legal scholarship for several hundred years" is the choice of Edith Henderson, curator of Langdell Library's Treasure Room. Henderson keeps this book, one of the few extant reproductions in the world, secured away, out of public view...
...examples he chooses to illustrate his points are all institutional. The designs meet aesthetic requirements while also reconciling conflicting aims inherent in the programs. Haggia Sophia, a great church constructed in the sixth century, symbolized the stability and unity of Justinian's reign, simultaneously conveying the sense of imcompleteness, anxiety, and aspiration crucial to its function as a place of worship. Palladio's Pallazzo Chiericati in Venice serves a double function as a private house and a border to a public square. Louis Kahn's Salk Institute in southern California provides a communal framework in which scientists can carry...
...strike and had to be chided for goofing off. He clears Alaric and his Goths of the charge that they destroyed Rome. The great city was ravaged, he writes, not by the barbarians in A.D. 410, but through imperial plundering in the 6th and 7th centuries by Byzantine Emperors Justinian and Constans II. Johnson also challenges the once popular thesis-of Max Weber and R.H. Tawney among others-that Calvinism helped nurture capitalism. In staunchly Calvinistic Scotland, Johnson notes, capitalism was long stifled. What did launch capitalism, he argues, was the decline of churchly power-whether in Calvinistic or Catholic...
...biblical Deborah, who led the Israelites to victory against the Canaanites. The Byzantine Empress Theodora, who inspired most of the important legislation of Justinian's reign. Catherine the Great of Russia, who had skills-and drives-as prodigious as her legendary predecessor Peter. From Nefertiti, the Maid of Orleans and Elizabeth I down to modern times, women leaders have left their mark. The 1970s alone have seen no fewer than four female heads of state: Israel's Golda Meir, India's Indira Gandhi, Sri Lanka's Sirimavo Bandaranaike and Argentina's Isabelita...