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Pronouncements and decisions
Now, though Rome clung desperately to its former glory, and the Senate continued to meet there, its pronouncements and decisions turned out to be...
DIALOGUE WITH PAUL OF NISIBIS
Church PolicyJustinian I (b.483- r.527-d.565)Justinian’s “dialogue” with a Nestorian.St. Emperor Justinian:DIALOGUE WITH PAUL OF NISIBISThe Dialogue with Paul of Nisibis is a transcript of...
Belisarius was utterly incapable
The reason for this was that after the Vandals were defeated, Justinian planned, not how he might best strengthen his hold on the country,...
John the Cappadocian
What she did to John the Cappadocian I have told elsewhere; and need add only that her treatment of him was due to her...
Civil and ecclesiastical offices
Theodora’s idea was to control everything in the state to suit herself. Civil and ecclesiastical offices were all in her hand, and there was...
Violation of the Thracian Land Law
Codex Justinianus:Coloni Bound to the Soil, c. 530An earlier law had attached coloni to the soil in provinces of the Empire other than...
Ruling of Justinian to the effect
In all such cases it seems to us sufficiently wrong for the lord to prejudge the absence of his coloni, who, born in the...
The very shrewd Bohemund
For, lest Bohemund should conceive any suspicion against him, the Emperor had ordered that raw meats be placed before him, together with the cooked,...
The Bad Manners of a Crusading Prince
When the Franks bad all come together and had taken an oath to the emperor, there was one count who had the boldness to...