Of the Buildings of Justinian

Of the Buildings of Justinian

Author: Procopius

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-05

Total Pages: 129

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"It becomes, therefore, important to have a clear record as to what Justinian did, not only in Palestine but in other countries, so as to be able to judge to some extent, by well-authenticated examples, of the founders of those edifices whose history is involved in doubt. Of the writers who can give us this record, none has such authority as Procopius, or gives so much detailed information; and he has, for that reason, been largely quoted by Gibbon and by well-nigh every other writer on Byzantine history; and he gives such definite information as to the dates of many of Justinian's buildings which remain to us, as to form a standard by which to recognise the general characteristics in outline and detail adopted by his architects in his greatest works, and which characterize the style now well known as Byzantine." source


The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire

The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire

Author: James Allan Stewart Evans

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 2005-01-30

Total Pages: 240

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This survey of the reign of the Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire dissects the complicated political and military environment surrounding Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire in the 6th Century CE, and discusses the ambitions and achievements of the Emperor Justinian.


The Wars of Justinian

The Wars of Justinian

Author: Prokopios

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2014-09-03

Total Pages: 677

ISBN-13: 1624661726

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A fully-outfitted edition of Prokopios' late Antique masterpiece of military history and ethnography--for the 21st-century reader. "At last . . . the translation that we have needed for so long: a fresh, lively, readable, and faithful rendering of Prokopios' Wars, which in a single volume will make this fundamental work of late ancient history-writing accessible to a whole new generation of students." --Jonathan Conant, Brown University


Justinian's Flea

Justinian's Flea

Author: William Rosen

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-05-03

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1101202424

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From the acclaimed author of Miracle Cure and The Third Horseman, the epic story of the collision between one of nature's smallest organisms and history's mightiest empire During the golden age of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian reigned over a territory that stretched from Italy to North Africa. It was the zenith of his achievements and the last of them. In 542 AD, the bubonic plague struck. In weeks, the glorious classical world of Justinian had been plunged into the medieval and modern Europe was born. At its height, five thousand people died every day in Constantinople. Cities were completely depopulated. It was the first pandemic the world had ever known and it left its indelible mark: when the plague finally ended, more than 25 million people were dead. Weaving together history, microbiology, ecology, jurisprudence, theology, and epidemiology, Justinian's Flea is a unique and sweeping account of the little known event that changed the course of a continent.


A Companion to Procopius of Caesarea

A Companion to Procopius of Caesarea

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Publisher: Brill's Companions to the Byza

Published: 2021-12-09

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9789004498761

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This book offers an extensive introduction to 6th-century Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea, widely regarded as one of the last great historians of Antiquity.


Byzantine Monuments of Istanbul

Byzantine Monuments of Istanbul

Author: John Freely

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-11-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780521179058

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This book is about the Byzantine monuments of Istanbul, most notably, Haghia Sophia. The remains of the land and sea walls, the Hippodrome, imperial palaces, commemorative columns, reservoirs and cisterns, an aqueduct, a triumphal archway, a fortified port, and twenty churches are also described in chronological order in the context of their times. These "monuments" are viewed in relationship to the political, religious, social, economic, intellectual and artistic developments of the Byzantine dynasties.