Procopius provides the primary source for the history of Justinian's reign.

Justinian's rule was not universally popular ; early in his reign he almost lost his throne during the Nika riots, and a conspiracy against the Emperor's life by dissatisfied businessmen was discovered as late as 562.

The Novellae, a collection of new laws issued during Justinian's reign, supplements the Corpus.

Justinian's habit of choosing efficient, but unpopular advisers nearly cost him his throne early in his reign.

One of the most spectacular features of Justinian's reign was the recovery of large stretches of land around the Western Mediterranean basin which had slipped out of Imperial control in the 5th century.

During Justinian's reign, the Balkans suffered from several incursions by the Turkic and Slavic peoples who lived north of the Danube.

Works of embellishment were not confined to churches alone: excavations at the site of the Great Palace of Constantinople have yielded several high-quality mosaics dating from Justinian's reign, and a column topped by a bronze statue of Justinian on horseback and dressed in a military costume was erected in the Augustaeum in Constantinople in 543.

In Justinian's era, and partly under his patronage, Byzantine culture produced noteworthy historians, including Procopius and Agathias, and poets such as Paul the Silentiary and Romanus the Melodist flourished during his reign.

Throughout Justinian's reign, the cities and villages of the East prospered, although Antioch was struck by two earthquakes ( 526, 528 ) and sacked and evacuated by the Persians ( 540 ).

In 527, the first year of Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I's reign, he became the adsessor ( legal adviser ) for Belisarius, Justinian's chief military commander who was then beginning a brilliant career.

" The eighteenth book, dealing with Justinian's reign, is well acquainted with, and colored by, official propaganda.

Despite many difficulties, during the 29 years of Justinian's reign, a series of events and changes took place which greatly raised the prestige of Romanian Orthodoxy in the Christian world and made him a representative figure for all of Orthodoxy.

During Justinian's reign, 302 new churches were built, 2345 others were repaired or restored.

* Justin, born probably in circa 525 / 530, became consul in 540 and general towards the end of Emperor Justinian's reign.

Following Justinian's reign the Empire entered a period of decline partially enabling the Arab conquests which would further weaken the Empire.

However, none of Justinian's surviving edicts dealing with Jewish matters is explicitly directed against the Jewish calendar, making the interpretation of Procopius's statement a complex matter.

Another contemporary chronicler, Procopius, compares Justinian's appearance to that of tyrannical Emperor Domitian, although this is probably slander.

The total of Justinian's legislature is known today as the Corpus juris civilis.

It was during the Eastern Roman Empire ( 5th century ) that legal studies were once again undertaken in depth, and it is from this cultural movement that Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis was born.

According to Byzantine chronicles, on his abdication he achieved some degree of anecdotal fame by crying out the verse from Ecclesiastes, ' Vanity of vanities, all is vanity ' during Justinian's triumph in Contstantinople .< ref > Edward Gibbon,

Agathias ( Histories 2. 31 ) is the only authority for the story of Justinian's closing of the re-founded Platonic ( actually neoplatonic ) Academy in Athens ( 529 ), which is sometimes cited as the closing date of " Antiquity ".

The earliest existing of Justinian's domed buildings is the central plan Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople, completed by 536.

Quasi-contract is one of the four categories of obligation in Justinian's classification.

The, in its historical meaning, is commonly thought of as a combination of canon law and Roman law which formed the basis of a common system of legal thought in Western Europe from the rediscovery and reception of Justinian's Digest in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Whether Justinian's daughter Anastasia was married to Tervel as had been arranged is unknown.

There is a theory that his close relationship with Emperor Justinian may date to Justinian's service as magister militum praesentalis in the 520s, prior to his elevation to the Byzantine throne.

Justinian's monuments in Istanbul include the domed churches of Hagia Sophia and Hagia Irene, but there is also an earlier, smaller church of Sts Sergius and Bacchus ( locally referred to as " Little Hagia Sophia "), which might have served as a model for both in that it combined the elements of a longitudinal basilica with those of a centralized building.

The phrase is also mentioned in the beginning of Justinian's Institutiones: ‘ iuris praecepta sunt haec: honeste vivere, alterum non laedere, suum cuique tribuere .’ ( Inst.

Just as Graves ' Claudius books ( I, Claudius and Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina ) were based upon, for example, The Twelve Caesars of Suetonius, Count Belisarius is largely based on Procopius's History of Justinian's Wars and Secret History.

While Capito is hardly ever referred to, the dicta of Labeo are of constant recurrence in the writings of the classical jurists, such as Gaius, Ulpian and Iulius Paulus ; and no inconsiderable number of them were thought worthy of preservation in Justinian's Digest.

In its present state it begins with the mythical history of Egypt and ends with the expedition to Roman Africa under the tribune Marcianus, Justinian's nephew, in 563 ( his editor Thurn believes it originally ended with Justinian's death ); it is focused largely on Antioch and ( in the later books ) Constantinople.

This procedure was included in Justinian's code although it is unclear whether it was fully adopted in the East.

As the towns became the permanent seats of standing courts during the later Empire, the conventūs were superseded ( Justinian's Code, i. 40. 6 ) and the term conventus is lastly applied to certain bodies of Roman citizens living in a province, forming a sort of enfranchised corporation, and representing the Roman people in their district as a kind of gentry ; and it was from among these that proconsuls generally took their assistants.

He is notable for his organization of the glosses, the medieval comments on Justinian's codification of Roman law, the Corpus Juris Civilis.

The " Summa Codicis ", attributed to Irnerius by Herman Fitting in his 1894 edition is now widely considered a later work of between 1130 and 1159, but remains the earliest known summa on Justinian's Code

His most influential work is his Summa Codicis, a commentary of the civil law organized according to the order of Justinian's Code.

Ravaged by Vandals during the V century A. D., was annexed in VI century to Justinian's Empire, during this period the town lived dark centuries, marked by dysentery, neglect of Bisanzio and forays of pirates.

According to a controversial tradition reported by several medieval sources, Narses, out of spite for having been removed by Justinian's successor Justin II, called the Lombards to Italy.

The greater part of Italy would be lost to the invading Lombards three years after Justinian's death ( 568 ), the newly founded province of Spania was completely recovered by the Spanish Visigoths in 624 under the leadership of Suintila, and within a century and a half Africa would be forever lost for the empire to the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates during the Muslim conquests.

IV, Issue 3 ( Jun / Jul, 2010 ), was devoted to " Justinian's fireman: Belisarius and the Byzantine empire ", with articles by Sidney Dean, Duncan B. Campbell, Ian Hughes, Ross Cowan, Raffaele D ' Amato, and Christopher Lillington-Martin.

Procopius was the author of a history in eight books of the wars fought by Justinian I, a panegyric on Justinian's public works throughout the empire, and a book known as the Secret History ( Greek: Anekdota ) that claims to report the scandals that Procopius could not include in his published history.

Developed mainly out of the various customals, the process was inspired by Justinian's sixth-century codification of Roman law, the Corpus Iuris Civilis and, within that, Justinian's Code ( Codex ).

The work was directed by Tribonian, an official in Justinian's court.

Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis was distributed in the West but was lost sight of ; it was scarcely needed in the comparatively primitive conditions that followed the loss of the Exarchate of Ravenna by the Byzantine empire in the 8th century.

The present name of Justinian's codification was only adopted in the 16th century, when it was printed in 1583 by Dionysius Gothofredus under the title " Corpus Juris Civilis ".

In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the schools of glossatores, commentatores and usus modernus distinguished themselves by their approach to the interpretation of " laws " ( mainly, Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis ).

On hearing the news of his death, Justinian's mother took his six-year-old son and co-emperor, Tiberius, to sanctuary at St. Mary's Church in Blachernae, but was pursued by Philippicus ' henchmen, who dragged the child from the altar and, once outside the church, murdered him, thus eradicating the line of Heraclius.

Justinian, a 1998 novel by science fiction author, and Byzantine scholar, Harry Turtledove, writing under the name HN Turtletaub, gives a fictionalized version of Justinian's life as retold by a fictional lifelong companion the soldier Myakes.

In antiquity, Awjila was nominally within the Roman Empire, evidenced by emperor Justinian's decree that forbade the worship of Amun.

Believing that the Peloponnesians were direct descendents of the ancient Hellenes, Pletho rejected Justinian's idea of a universal Empire in favour of recreating the Hellenistic civilization, the zenith of Greek influence, In his 1415 and 1418 pamphlets urged Manuel II and his son Theodore to turn the peninsula into a cultural island with a new constitution of strongly centralised monarchy advised by a small body of middle-class educated men.