The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful ... was the Nika revolt of 532, when Justinian the Great, at the urging of Empress ...

The church flaunts a monumental Byzantine style and stresses the ... with three apses in the first half of the 6th century under Emperor Justinian I. “The architecture shows striking parallels ...

Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora were the 6th Century golden couple of the Byzantine Empire. Think Jay-Z and Beyonce - but with a lot more chariots. Script and narration by Emma Nagouse ...

The verdict of history on Justinian is mixed. Was he a brilliant strategist, a wise lawgiver, and a gifted politician who laid the foundations for the Byzantine empire’s remarkable ... Belisarius is ...

They were normally under the command of the duces (the dux was a type ... in the year 365 AD. The empire during the time of Justinian. Credit: Tataryn / Wikimedia Commons The Limitanei served both as ...

on efforts to restore the Empire in the West after its “fall”, takes a deeper look at the most successful of those efforts, that by the Eastern Emperor Justinian in the mid-sixth century. Of course, ...