The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I came close to uniting the former Roman Empire less than a century after its fall. However, ...

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 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 ...

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 period from the late fourth to the sixth century C.E. saw the collapse of the Roman empire in the West, and the emergence of the Eastern or “Byzantine” empire ... Theodosius I to the death of ...