How Justinian Saved the Byzantine Empire | Plague of Justinian
Channel: Memento Mori History
Date: 2022-11-11

How Justinian Saved the Byzantine Empire | Plague of Justinian #7

The 7th video in our series on the Plague of Justinian explores how the emperor reacted to the litany of problems the Byzantine Empire faced while he was comatose in bed.

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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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