She may have been the niece of King Theodoric and betrothed to Audoin through the mediation of Emperor Justinian.

Justinian also strengthened the borders of the Empire from Africa to the East through the construction of fortifications, and ensured Constantinople of its water supply through construction of underground cisterns ( see Basilica Cistern ).

It was through the use of the restored Justinian code that Frederick came to view himself as a new Roman emperor.

In this state, Tiberius initially named two heirs, both of whom each married one of his daughters – Maurice was betrothed to Constantina, while Germanus, related through blood to the great emperor Justinian, was married to his other daughter, Charito.

When the previous Emperor Justinian returned to the throne in 705, both Tiberios and Leontios were paraded through the streets while the citizenry pelted them with ordure.

In the meantime, his troops had discovered a long abandoned water conduit beneath the city walls, through which Justinian and some of his supporters managed to enter the city.

With his capture, Tiberios, together with his brother Herakleios and the former emperor Leontios, were paraded in chains through the city streets before being presented before Justinian in the Hippodrome of Constantinople.

Justinian II named Tervel, khan of the Bulgars, kaisar in 705 ; the title then developed into the Slavic term tsar or czar ( from Latin through Bulgarian and then into Russian, Serbian etc .).

Justinian, towards the end of his reign, expanded the proscription to the active partner as well ( in 558 ), warning that such conduct can lead to the destruction of cities through the " wrath of God ".

In Constantinople he seems to have early won the notice of Justinian I, one of the main objects of whose policy was the consolidation of Eastern Christianity as a bulwark against the Zoroastrian power of Persia, through persecution of all the remaining pagans of the empire.

When pestilence swept through the whole known world and notably the Roman Empire, wiping out most of the farming community and of necessity leaving a trail of desolation in its wake, Justinian showed no mercy towards the ruined freeholders.

The Malwa invaded the gut of Persia by sea through the Persian gulf during the monsoons with an unbelievably huge ( Asian ) army ( to the Persians and other Byzantium Generals ) which force succeeds battering the unwary and surprised Persians ( forcing them to seek peace with Justinian ) and penetrates as far as Babylon thereby pinning most of Persia's military might and paralyzing its capabilities whilst also invading from the Hindu Kush by land into eastern Persia.

Hellenistic theology, which could be deemed to last until the suppression of the Athenian Academy in 529 by Justinian I, overlaps with early Jewish and early Christian theology ( see below ), and several strands of thought important particularly to early Christian thought arise within Hellenistic circles: attempts to explain the apparent caprice of the gods, Atheism, the development of monotheism, the idea of God as first cause or form of the Good, the dualism of spirit and matter in humanity, and redemption ( the release of the spirit from its material prison to a higher spiritual world ) through knowledge.

After opening with a glimpse of Mount Ida, an important locus for the history of the Trojan War, Canto LXXVIII moves through much that is familiar from the earlier cantos in the sequence: del Cossa, the economic basis of war, Pound's writer and artist friends in London, " virtuous " rulers ( Lorenzo de Medici, the emperors Justinian, Titus and Antoninus, Mussolini ), usury and stamp scripts culminating in the Nausicaa episode from the Odyssey and a reference to the Confucian classic Annals of Spring and Autumn in which " there are no righteous wars ".

It traveled through the-long Valens ( Bozdoğan ) Aqueduct, and the-long Mağlova Aqueduct, which was built by the Emperor Justinian.

Having married into the Gothic Amal royal line through his second wife Matasuntha and a distinguished service record, at the time of his sudden death, he was considered the probable heir to Emperor Justinian.

Justinian dedicated the finished project to the feast of Mary's Nativity, and annually thereafter on September 8, and through to the present day, both Muslim and Christian pilgrims have come to commemorate the feast day of Our Lady of Saidnaya.

Given that Arbogast and Eugenius had began openly celebrating paganism again, Theodosius I sought fit to justify his actions against Arbogast and Eugenius as a Holy War, and set off through the Justinian Alps with his armies to eliminate both of his adversaries from their respective commands at the Battle of the Frigidus in 394.

Emperor Justinian I also created the offices of quaesitor, a judicial and police official for Constantinople, and the quaestor exercitus, a short-lived joint military-administrative post covering the border of the lower Danube.

The emperor Justinian I ( 527 – 565 ) was known for his successes in war, for his legal reforms and for his public works.

This trend had already featured in some of the administrative reforms of Justinian I in the 530s.

To stem fraud, Justinian reforms codified ( cf.

As emperor, Leo III, introduced more administrative and legal reforms than had been promulgated since the time of Justinian.

These fragments of the province of Italy, as it was when reconquered for Justinian, were almost all lost, either to the Lombards, who finally conquered Ravenna itself in 751, or by the revolt of the pope, who finally separated from the Empire on the issue of the iconoclastic reforms.

The codes of Justinian, particularly the Corpus juris civilis ( 529-534 ) continued to be the basis of legal practice in the Empire throughout its so-called Byzantine history.

In the Paratitla, or summaries which he made of the Digest, and particularly of the Code of Justinian, he condensed into short axioms the elementary principles of law, and gave definitions remarkable for their admirable clearness and precision.

Chesnut also comments on how the Roman historian and scholar endues his “ Ecclesiastical History ” with a dramatic style, using themes from classical Greek tragedies to characterize Justinian ’ s life, particularly Fortune ’ s grand fluctuations.

The Popes of the period were not seriously opposed to the Jews ; and this accounts for the ardor with which the latter took up arms for the Ostrogoths as against the forces of Justinian — particularly at Naples, where the remarkable defense of the city was maintained almost entirely by Jews.

The idea of the pentarchy was first tangibly expressed in the laws of Emperor Justinian I ( 527 – 565 ), particularly in Novella 131.

Much Ottonian art reflected the dynasty's desire to establish visually a link to the Christian rulers of Late Antiquity, such as Constantine, Theoderich, and Justinian as well as to their Carolingian predecessors, particularly Charlemagne.

Much Ottonian art reflected the dynasty's desire to establish visually a link to the Christian rulers of Late Antiquity, such as Constantine, Theoderic, and Justinian as well as to their Carolingian predecessors, particularly Charlemagne.

In late 577, despite his complete lack of military experience, he was named as magister militum per Orientem, effectively commander-in-chief of the Byzantine army in the East, in the ongoing war against Sassanid Persia, succeeding the general Justinian.

* the final phase of Antiquity is the period of Christianization during the later 4th to early 6th centuries, taken to be complete with the closure of the Neoplatonic Academy by Justinian I in 529 AD.

In the time of Justinian the work was complete, and the formulary system had disappeared.

In 1876 Ludwig II of Bavaria commissioned Neo-Byzantine interiors of the Neuschwanstein Castle, complete with mosaic images of Justinian I and Greek saints.

The Emperor Justinian forbade the use of abbreviations in the compilation of the " Digest " and afterwards extended his prohibition to all other writings.

This story survived in the works of Hesychius of Miletus, who in all probability lived in the time of Justinian I.

Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.

Justinian, who continued this policy, tried to impose religious unity on his subjects by forcing them to accept doctrinal compromises that might appeal to all parties, a policy which proved unsuccessful as he satisfied none of them.

Though many delegates emerged in the East subservient to Justinian, many, especially the Monophysites, remained unsatisfied ; all the more bitter for him because during his last years he took an even greater interest in theological matters.

Both sides agree to return all occupied territories and Justinian makes a one-off payment of 110 centenaria ( 11, 000 pounds of gold ), as a contribution to the defense of the Caucasus passes.

* February 13 – Emperor Justinian I appoints a commission ( including the jurist Tribonian ) to codify all imperial laws that were still in force from Hadrian to the current date ( This becomes the Corpus Juris Civilis ).

The Theodosian decree ( in about 380 CE ) to destroy all pagan temples was not enforced there until the time of Justinian.

While it was raging, one of his companions reached out to Justinian saying that if he promised God that he would be magnanimous, and not seek revenge on his enemies when he was returned to the throne, they would all be spared.

Tervel agreed to provide all the military assistance necessary for Justinian to regain his throne in exchange for financial considerations, the award of a Caesars crown, and the hand of Justinian's daughter, Anastasia, in marriage.

He was formally appointed as Consul in 686, and from that point, Justinian II adopted the title of consul for all the Julian years of his reign, consecutively numbered.

In 533 A. D. Justinian, the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, legally recognized the bishop ( pope ) of Rome as the head of all the Christian churches.

The Byzantine Emperor Justinian ( r. 527 – 565 ) ordered death by fire, intestacy, and confiscation of all possessions by the State to be the punishment for heresy against the Christian faith in his Codex Iustiniani ( CJ 1. 5.

In his reign, all important records were translated into Arabic, and for the first time a special currency for the Muslim world was minted, which led to war with the Byzantine Empire under Justinian II.

In 532, Khosrau and Justinian, emperor of the Eastern Roman / Byzantine Empire concluded Pax Perpetuum, or the Eternal Peace in hopes of settling all land disputes between the Romans and Sassanians.

Callinicum ended the first of Belisarius ' Persian campaigns, returning all of the land lost to them to Roman rule under Justinian I in the Eternal Peace agreement signed in summer 532.

Justinian I ( r. 527 – 565 ), for instance, seems to have been dismissive of the Greens ’ petitions and to have never negotiated with them at all.

A considerable number of Monophysite bishops from all parts of the East, including Theodosius of Alexandria, Anthimus the deposed patriarch of Constantinople, Constantius of Laodicea, John of Egypt, Peter and others, who had come to Constantinople in the hope of mitigating the displeasure of the emperor and increasing the sympathies of Theodora, were held by Justinian in one of the imperial fortresses under house arrest.

A controversy concerning his letter to Maris arose in the next century, in the notorious dispute about the " Three Chapters ," when the letter-was branded as heterodox ( together with the works of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Theodoret's writings in favour of Nestorius ) in the edict of Justinian, and was formally condemned in 553 by the fifth general council, which pronounced an anathema, in bold defiance of historical fact, against all who should pretend that it and the other documents impugned had been recognized as orthodox by the council of Chalcedon.

Hagios Demetrios in Thessaloniki, St Catherine Monastery on Mount Sinai, Jvari Monastery in present-day Georgia, and three Armenian churches of Echmiadzin all date primarily from the 7th century and provide a glimpse on architectural developments in the Byzantine provinces following the age of Justinian.

Malalas was educated in Antioch, and probably was a jurist there, but moved to Constantinople at some point in Justinian I's reign ( perhaps after the Persian sack of Antioch in 540 ); all we know of his travels from his own hand are visits to Thessalonica and Paneas.