...a structure for mutual defense in the shaky period that followed these invasions, somewhere around the end of the sixth century and the beginning of the seventh. The Merovingian rulers of northern France - the crossroads par excellence of Roman and Germanic culture...

...229-231. Consequently the ex-Jacobite Probus is identical with the Probus who was bishop of Chalcedon at the end of the sixth century and the beginning of the seventh. See now K.-H. Uthemann, 'Stephanos von Alcxandrien und die {Conversion des Jakobiten Probos, des spateren...

...parts of the Islamic empire in the late seventh and early eighth centuries. There was a brief period at the end of the sixth century and the beginning of the seventh when Seville under Bishop Leander and then his greater brother Isidore became an important centre of...

...circulation and use, but clotted and hoarded. In the Byzantine Empire the Avar and Persian conquests, at the end of the sixth century and the beginning of the seventh, brought about an abrupt reduction in the taxable base of the empire. As a result the government had...

...observed above suggests that the painters of vases were at the forefront of developments in drawing at the end of the sixth century and the beginning of the fifth, but that this position had begun to be lost by the time of the Persian Wars. The lead had surely...

...Catholicos-Patriarch of Armenia.52 However, they sometimes manifested impulses toward independence. Thus at the end of the sixth century and the beginning of the seventh, under Byzantine influence, the Iberian Church (Gregorian) separated from the Armenian in 608, and the...

...The clothing the rider wears is not Thracian. Thracian costume, which was popular with Athenian youth at the end of the sixth century and the beginning of the fifth, almost always consists of a long, patterned cloak and boots that reach to the knees.132 The...

...Wagadu. Ghana was the largest and most powerful empire in West Africa, until Arab traders arrived there at the end of the sixth century and the beginning of the seventh. In those days, it was customary to make an annual sacrifice — the most beautiful maiden of the realm...

...monarchy was dissolved and Rome became a republic. There must have been a great deal of discussion, at the end of the sixth century and the beginning of the fifth, concerning the purposes of the state and the constitutional forms that would best serve to achieve...

...applied to Aethelberht of Kent. The political cohesion of the Northumbrian and East Anglian kingdoms at the end of the sixth century and the beginning of the seventh should not be exaggerated. It is inconceivable that the settlement and political development of such...