Justinian
Empire and Society in the Sixth Century
1st Edition
Published on 31. January 2022
224 pages
978-1-4744-1429-6 (ISBN)
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Surveys the current debates in modern literature and provides a wide selection of translated sources.
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Content
- Intro
- Series Editors' Preface
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Part I Debates
- Introduction: Discovering Justinian - Sources and Scholarship
- Chapter 1 Rise to Power
- Chapter 2 Conflict and Diplomacy on the Eastern Frontier
- Chapter 3 The Wars of Reconquest
- Chapter 4 Church and State
- Chapter 5 Governing the Empire
- Chapter 6 Culture and Society
- Conclusion: Longevity and Legacy
- Part II Documents
- 1. Collectio Avellana 147
- 2. Anonymus Valesianus 85-7
- 3. Marcellinus Comes 521
- 4. Diptych announcing the consulship of Justinian, 521
- 5. Greek Anthology I.10, On the Church of the Holy Martyr Polyeuktos, lines 14-33, 42-50
- 6. Church of SS Sergius and Bacchus inscription
- 7. Procopius, Secret History 9.20-2
- 8. John of Ephesus, Lives of the Eastern Saints 13
- 9. Cassiodorus, Variae X.20
- 10. Procopius, Buildings I.9.5-10
- 11. C.J. I.5.12.4-10
- 12. Gold coin of Justin and Justinian, 527
- 13. Procopius, Wars I.24.33-7
- 14. Menander the Guardsman, fragment 6.1
- 15. C.J. I.29.5
- 16. The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor, IX.8a
- 17. Procopius, Wars I.14.45-54
- 18. Malalas, Chronicle 477-8
- 19. Procopius, Secret History 24.12-14
- 20. Evagrius, Ecclesiastical History IV.27
- 21. Agathias, The Histories IV.30.7-10
- 22. John of Ephesus, Church History 3.4.6-9
- 23. Procopius, Wars VIII.17.1-8
- 24. Procopius, Wars IV.6.30-4
- 25. John the Lydian, de Magistratibus III.55
- 26. Corippus, In laudem Iustini minoris 1.276-87
- 27. Victor of Tonnena, Chronicon 534
- 28. Procopius, Buildings I.10.16-18
- 29. C.J. I.27.1, 12-14
- 30. Procopius, Secret History 18.5-10
- 31. Inscription from A.n Djelloula (Cululis)
- 32. Cyril of Scythopolis, Life of St Sabas 74
- 33. Novel 37, preface, 1, 5
- 34. Facundus of Hermiane, In Defence of the Th ree Chapters, preface
- 35. Procopius, Wars VII.37.1-7
- 36. Epistulae Austrasicae XX
- 37. Procopius, Wars III.2.1-6
- 38. Cassiodorus, Variae XI.1
- 39. Pope Pelagius, Letters 4 and 85
- 40. Novels, Appendix 7: Pragmatic Sanction, 554
- 41. Procopius, Secret History 11.5-8
- 42. Procopius, Wars II.4.4-11
- 43. Novel 11, preface, 4
- 44. Agathias, The Histories V.13.5-6
- 45. Agathias, The Histories V.15.7-8
- 46. Theophanes AM 6050
- 47. Isidore, History of the Goths 47
- 48. The Chr onicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor, IX.15j
- 49. C.J. I.1.6 and Chronicon Paschale 533
- 50. 'Only-begotten Son' troparion
- 51. Victor of Tonnena, Chronicon 540
- 52. Novel 42, preface
- 53. Victor of Tonnena, Chronicon 543
- 54. Evagrius, Ecclesiastical History IV.38
- 55. Cyril of Scythopolis, Life of St Sabas 85
- 56. Justinian, On the Orthodox Faith
- 57. Evagrius, Ecclesiastical History IV.39
- 58. Agapetus, Advice to the Emperor Justinian
- 59. Novel 131, preface, 1-4
- 60. Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, Chronicle 844
- 61. Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, Chronicle 845
- 62. Cyril of Scythopolis, Life of St Sabas 72
- 63. Evagrius, Ecclesiastical History IV.10
- 64. Institutes, preface
- 65. Novel 25, preface
- 66. Novel 47, preface
- 67. Justinian, the fi rst dated copper coin, ad 538
- 68. Novel 38, preface
- 69. Evagrius, Ecclesiastical History IV.29
- 70. Procopius, Secret History 17.5
- 71. Romanos, Kontakion 54, 14-25
- 72. Paul the Silentiary, Ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia, lines 1-80
- 73. Procopius, Buildings I.2.1-12
- 74. Procopius, Buildings V.8.4-9
- 75. Procopius, Buildings I.11.10-15
- 76. Greek Anthology IX.641
- 77. C.J. I.5.18.4
- 78. C.J. I.11.10
- 79. Agathias, The Histories II.30.3-4
- 80. Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, Chronicle 852
- 81. Choricius, Oratio XIII, preface, 10-16
- 82. Greek Anthology I.8
- Chronology
- Popes and Patriarchs
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Essay Questions and Exercise Topics
- Primary Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
