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probably the most powerful woman in Byzantine history. Her intelligence and political acumen made her Justinian’s most trusted adviser and enabled her to use the power and influence of her office to promote religious and social policies that favoured her interests.
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His sole rule was characterized by profound efforts to strengthen the empire and return the state to its former ancient glory.
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Code of Justinian, Latin Codex Justinianus, formally Corpus Juris Civilis (“Body of Civil Law”),
Justinian I [Credit: Alinari—Giraudon/Art Resource, New York]the collections of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I from ad 529 to 565. Strictly speaking, the works did not constitute a new legal code. -
The Blues and Greens came to predominate and, although this arrangement made organization easier, it also focused loyalty on these two factions alone, the Blues sitting opposite the imperial box (kathisma) near the starting gates of the Hippodrome and the Greens at the other end near the sphendone, a juxtaposition that no doubt contributed to a rivalry already made intense by the support of Justinian for the Blues. It was in the Hippodrome at Constantinople, as in the Circus at Rome, that the po
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in 535 ce, Belisarius attacked Rome, taking it ... But Justinian's achievements did not end with his codification of laws.
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The siege was the first major encounter between the forces of the two opponents, and played a decisive role in the subsequent development of the war.
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Hagia Sophia is a former Christian patriarchal basilica, later an imperial mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Justinian was able to take back much, but not all, of the territory that had once belonged to Rome.
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Iconoclasm constituted a ban on religious images by Emperor Leo III and ... The Western church remained firmly in support of the use of images
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The capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Army, under the command Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II
