Table of Contents

Early Christian art - Rome and the legacy of the caesars; early Christian art - the eastern provinces of the empire and the foundation of Constantinople; early Christian art - the synthesis of the secular and the religious image; the age of Justinian; the forsaken west and the emergence of the supreme pontiff; the troubled east; the triumph of orthodoxy; the scholar of orthodoxy; the scholar emperor and the triumph of the imperial ideal; metropolitan authority; metropolitan diffusion and decline.