How Justinian Reformed the Byzantine Empire | Plague of Justinian
Channel: Memento Mori History
Date: 2022-10-07

How Justinian Reformed the Byzantine Empire | Plague of Justinian #2

The second of our series on Justinian's Plague, the first Bubonic Plague Pandemic! We learn of the reforms to the Byzantine Empire happening under the emperor Justinian before Justinian's Plague struck, and of his main rival - Khosrow I of the Persian empire!

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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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