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. 530
An 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...
