Les stratèges de Sicile. De la naissance du thème au règne de Léon V

Abstract

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.

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