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| | Justinian - Christianity Revealed - AskWhy! Publications |
 | | Justinian’s uncle’s wife Euphemia, the Empress, though a simple uncultured country woman of barbarian origins deplored Justinian’s intention to marry a prostitute and forbade it on the grounds of its unlawfulness. |
 | | Justinian could have picked any woman in the Empire, high class, cultured, modest, chaste, even virginal but it never seemed to occur to him that his choice of consort was shocking even in shocking times. |
 | | Justinian’s character was contradictory because he was hugely ambitious and blessed with great energy and craftiness but was quarrelsome, especially over religious matters, mean, jealous, cowardly and two-faced, vacillating, greedy and callous. |
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