How the Plague of Justinian Shaped History [Complete Documentary]
Channel: Memento Mori History
Date: 2022-12-22

"How the Plague of Justinian Shaped the World [Complete Documentary]"
A compilation of my series on the Plague of Justinian acting as a full documentary describing the times of Justinian in great detail, with a focus on the plague.

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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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00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:17 Who were the Romans?
00:13:41 Justinian the Great
00:23:35 Khosrow the Shahanshah
00:26:16 Justinian Reforming the Empire
00:30:25 The Nika Riots
00:38:08 Renovatio Imperii
00:45:13 The Bubonic Plague Arrives
00:51:48 The Captain's Story
00:58:17 The Doctor's Story
01:00:48 How the Byzantines Responded to the Plague
01:06:00 The Patriarch's Story
01:08:08 The Death Toll
01:11:00 The Guard's Story
01:12:23 The Plague Strikes the Emperor
01:17:07 Famine and Economic Collapse
01:20:02 The War in Italy
01:29:32 A Poem
01:30:18 Justinian Wakes Up
01:38:53 The War with Persia
01:46:50 The War in Italy Pt 2
01:56:28 Recovering from the Plague
01:58:34 Going Back to War with Persia
02:04:04 Finishing Off the Goths
02:09:00 The Death of Justinian
02:14:32 How the Bubonic Plague Works