As a ruler, Justinian showed great energy.

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.

Hypatius was the nephew of Emperor Anastasius I, who ruled before Justin, and he was also associated by marriage to the noble Anicii clan, which gave him a serious claim to the imperial diadem ; however, Hypatius showed no such ambition, and he and the other nephews of Anastasius were well-treated by both Justin and his successor to the Byzantine throne, Justinian I.

Graves set much of the novel in the Constantinople of Justinian I.

In its preparation, centuries of material was examined, scrutinized for authenticity by leading experts, and harmonized as much as possible with opposing canons and even other codes, from the Codex of Justinian to the Napoleonic Code.

Roman law as preserved in the codes of Justinian and in the Basilica remained the basis of legal practice in Greece and in the courts of the Eastern Orthodox Church even after the fall of the Byzantine Empire and the conquest by the Turks, and also formed the basis for much of the Fetha Negest, which remained in force in Ethiopia until 1931.

Relying upon the accounts of the historian Procopius, it often has been said that Justinian ruled the Empire in his uncle's name during the reign of Justin, however, there is much evidence to the contrary.

After the Nika Revolt destroyed much of the city of Constantinople in 532, Justinian had the opportunity to rebuild.

In its preparation, centuries of material was examined, scrutinized for authenticity by leading experts, and harmonized as much as possible with opposing canons and even other Codes, from the Codex of Justinian to the Napoleonic Code.

The fires that started during the tumult resulted in the destruction of much of the city, including the city's foremost church, the Hagia Sophia ( which Justinian would later rebuild ).

Evagrius is much less critical of the Emperor Justinian and his wife Theodora, in comparison with Procopius, who described the two as physically manifest demons.

This time Emperor Justinian was much harsher to him.

The reign of Justinian ( 482 – 565 ) saw the Empire recapture Rome and much of Italy from the barbarians, but these successes left the empire's eastern flank exposed.

Like Riose, Belisarius served a strong emperor, Justinian the Great, in an empire that it had declined from its peak ( Belisarius was one of the people, along with Justinian, known as " the last of the Romans ", i. e., imperials ); helped it to recapture much of its lost territory ; and was called back on baseless suspicion that he was angling for the Imperial throne.

From his enthronement to his death, as Mihai Urzică writes, " faced with the adversities to which the Church was subjected, Patriarch Justinian proved himself an able diplomat and tried, as much as he could, to withstand the attacks launched against the house of the Lord.

The Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian for a time retook and restored much of the territory once held by the unified Roman Empire, from Spain and Italy, to Anatolia.

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 ".

According to ancient opinion ( which, however, has been much controverted ), Irnerius was the author of the epitome of the Novellae of Justinian, called the Authentica, arranged according to the titles of the Code.

At a much earlier date Justinian ( in his Sixth Novel ) had recognized them as the work of the Apostles and confirmed them as ecclesiastical law.

According to legend agents of Justinian I bribed two Buddhist monks from Khotan in about 552 to discover the secret of cultivating silk, although much continued to be imported from China.

The war had its roots in the ambition of Roman Emperor Justinian to recover the provinces of the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost to invading barbarian tribes in the previous century ( the Migration Period ).

The Vandalic War produced an unexpectedly swift and decisive victory for the Roman Empire, and must certainly have encouraged Justinian in his ambition to recover the lost western provinces.

The Historian Procopius, in his Secret History, claims that the emperor Justinian attempted to interfere with the Jewish calendar in the 6th century, and a modern writer has suggested that this measure may have been directed against the protopaschites.

In January 532, partisans of the chariot racing factions in Constantinople, normally divided among themselves, united against Justinian in a revolt that has become known as the Nika riots.

It has been estimated that before Justinian I's reconquests the state had an annual revenue of 5, 000, 000 solidi in AD 530, but after his reconquests, the annual revenue was increased to 6, 000, 000 solidi in AD 550.

* Justinian I issues the Lex Julia and declares that a wife has no right to bring criminal charges of adultery against a husband.

Corpus Iuris Civilis ( Justinian Body of Civil Law ) has been described as the greatest code of law ever devised.

Legend has it that monks working for the emperor Justinian I smuggled silkworm eggs to Constantinople in hollow canes from China.

It has been suggested that the 681 peace treaty with the Byzantine Empire that established the new Bulgarian state was concluded at Varna and the first Bulgarian capital south of the Danube may have been provisionally located in its vicinity — possibly in an ancient city near Lake Varna's north shore named Theodorias ( Θεοδωριάς ) by Justinian I — before it moved to Pliska 70 km to the west.

It has been suggested that Asparukh was aware of the importance of the Roman military camp ( campus tribunalis ) established by Justinian I outside Odessus and considered it ( or its remnants ) as the legitimate seat of power for both Lower Moesia and Scythia.

Alimony has been discussed in ancient legal texts including the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (# 137 -# 142 ) and the Code of Justinian.

The St David's lifeboat, located at St Justinian, has saved an estimated 360 people since the first lifeboat was located there in 1869 ; and four lifeboatmen have died while saving others.

Kotor ( then called " Cattaro ") has been fortified since the early Middle Ages, when Emperor Justinian built a fortress above Acruvium in 535, after expelling the Ostrogoths ; a second town probably grew up on the heights round it, for Constantine Porphyrogenitus, in the 10th century, alludes to Lower Kotor.

In the village of Jelica-Gradina, a Roman compound ( fort ) with a martyrium and necropolis has been excavated, with three churches, one of which produced a pentanummion for Justinian 526 – 537, also believed to have founded the fort in the 530s.

Constantius II built there a magnificent bridge over the Pyramus ( Malalas, Chronographia, XIII ; P. G., XCVII, 488 ) afterwards restored by Justinian ( Procopius, De Edificiis, V. 5 ) and has been restored again recently.

Later, under Justinian I ( 527-565 ), it was designated one of the Pentarchy, though the Pentarchy has never been recognized by Roman Catholicism which instead claims Papal supremacy.

Toumanoff has inferred that the Samanazus, a name of the Iberian " king " found in John Malala's list of rulers contemporary with Justinian and reported by Theophanes the Confessor and Georgios Kedrenos to have visited Constantinople in 535, might have been a corruption of words meaning " brother of Dachi " and so perhaps refers to Mihrdat.

* The Archbishop has been taped saying, referring to the Justinian era of Christianity: Early Greek Christians blessed and honored the Ancient Greek temples, in which pagans and heathens dwelled, by recycling the materials ( stones and dirt ) from the Ancient Greek Temples to build Christian temples.

For example, the long-held assumption that bubonic plague was the cause of the Justinian plague and the Black Death has been strongly supported by finding Yersinia pestis DNA in mass graves ; whereas another proposed cause, anthrax, was not found

At a date often cited as the end of Antiquity, the emperor Justinian closed the school in 529 A. D. ( Justinian actually closing the school has come under some recent scrutiny ).

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

During his reign Justinian also subdued the Tzani, a people on the east coast of the Black Sea that had never been under Roman rule before.

Justinian would have, in earlier times, been unable to marry her because of her class, but his uncle Emperor Justin I had passed a law allowing intermarriage between social classes.

Justinian achieved lasting fame through his judicial reforms, particularly through the complete revision of all Roman law, something that had not previously been attempted.

Having thus secured his eastern frontier, Justinian turned his attention to the West, where Arian Germanic kingdoms had been established in the territories of the former Western Roman Empire.

King Hilderic, who had maintained good relations with Justinian and the North African Catholic clergy, had been overthrown by his cousin Gelimer in 530.

Then, having been recalled by Justinian, Belisarius returned to Constantinople, taking the captured Vitigis and his wife Matasuntha with him.

Justinian also rebuilt the Church of Hagia Sophia ( which cost 20, 000 pounds of gold ), the original site having been destroyed during the Nika riots.

Some, including the Byzantine chronicler Theophanes, have claimed that Konon's family had been resettled in Thrace, where he entered the service of Emperor Justinian II, when the latter was advancing on Constantinople with an army of 15, 000 horsemen provided by Tervel of Bulgaria in 705.

In 554, Granada and southernmost Hispania Baetica were lost to representatives of the Byzantine Empire ( to form the province of Spania ) who had been invited in to help settle a Visigothic dynastic struggle, but who stayed on, as a hoped-for spearhead to a " Reconquest " of the far west envisaged by emperor Justinian I.

All three forms are widely believed to have been responsible for a number of high-mortality epidemics throughout human history, including the Plague of Justinian in 542 and the Black Death that accounted for the death of at least one-third of the European population between 1347 and 1353.

The current building was originally constructed as a church between 532 and 537 on the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian and was the third Church of the Holy Wisdom to occupy the site, the previous two having both been destroyed by rioters.

In the time of his predecessor Justinian I ( 527 – 565 ), parts of the former Western Roman Empire had been recovered including Italy, Africa and part of Spain.

Callinicus, the praepositus sacri cubiculi, seems to have been the only witness to his dying moments, and later claimed that Justinian had designated " Justin, Vigilantia's son " as his heir in a deathbed decision.

The rebels then seized the capital and proclaimed Bardanes as Emperor Philippicus ; Justinian had been on his way to Armenia, and was unable to return to Constantinople in time to defend it.

This is most clearly seen in the coinage of Justinian ’ s reign, which saw the reintroduction of the Loros, the traditional consular costume that had not been seen on Imperial coinage for a century, while the office itself had not been celebrated for nearly half a century.

Probably also the property of the Platonist school, which in the time of Proclus was valued at more than 1000 gold pieces, was confiscated ; at least, Justinian deprived the physicians and teachers of the liberal arts of the provision-money which had been assigned to them by previous emperors, and confiscated funds which the citizens had provided for spectacles and other civic purposes.