Justiniana Prima
Subtitle: An Underestimated Aspect of Justinian's Church Policy
Publisher: Jagiellonian University
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9788323341895
Subjects: Justinian i, emperor of the east, 483?-565; Church and state; Church history, primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Byzantine empire, politics and government
Description: "The book explores the history of Justiniana Prima, a city built by Emperor Justinian I (527-565) in his birthplace near Niš in present-day Serbia. Previous studies focused on determining the city's location, underestimating the significance of analyzing written sources for the reconstruction of this city's genesis and importance. Using information from Emperor Justinian's Novels XI and CXXXI, as well as Book IV of Procopius of Caesarea's De aedificiis, Stanislaw Turlej endeavors to show that Justiniana Prima's historic significance resulted from granting its Church the status of an archbishopric with its own province in 535, which was independent of Rome. Justinian wanted to introduce profound changes to the ecclesiastical organization based on state law"--Page [4] of cover.