Before the Plague - Origins of the Byzantine Empire | Plague of Justinian
Channel: Memento Mori History
Date: 2022-09-30

Before the Plague - Origins of the Byzantine Empire | Plague of Justinian #1

The first video of our Plague of Justinian series! We go into full detail on the origins of the Byzantine Empire, and why the Fall of Rome was so important for them.

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Sources:
The Books of the Wars - Procopius of Caesarea
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
Justinian’s Flea – William Rosen
History of the Later Roman Empire – JB Bury
Justinian and the Byzantine – Andrea Giordani
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law – Justinian and the Corpus Iuris Civilis

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