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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Justinian I
Justinian and Theodora hoped for children; indeed years later Theodora was to ask for the prayers of Mar Saba that she might conceive, but the saint refused to beseech God on behalf of a Monophysite.
Justinian respected his wife's beliefs; he promised her when she was on her deathbed in 548 that he would continue to protect the Monophysite heretics whom she sheltered in the palace of Hormisdas in Constantinople.
In the midst of the plague of 542, Constantinople was shaken by an earthquake.
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  Justinian I. - Wikipedia
Justinian gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Herrscher der ausgehenden Spätantike.
In der Frage innerkirchlicher Häresien scheiterten Justinians Ausgleichsbemühungen, seine Verurteilung der monophysitischen Lehre, welcher unter anderem selbst Kaiserin Theodora folgte, verschärfte nur die schon existierenden Spannungen zwischen den monophysitischen Kirchen Syriens und Ägyptens und der antimonophysitisch, bzw.
Justinian ist bis in die jüngste Vergangenheit hinein als eine der leuchtendsten Herrscherfiguren der Spätantike gefeiert worden, und fraglos zählt er neben Diokletian und Konstantin zu den wichtigsten spätrömischen Kaisern.
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 JUSTINIAN I. - LoveToKnow Article on JUSTINIAN I.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Justinians selections were usually capable, but not so often honest; probably it was hard to find thoroughly upright officials; possibly they would not have been most serviceable in carrying out the imperial will, and especially in replenishing the imperial treasury.
Justinian was engaged in three great foreign wars, two of them of his own seeking, the third a legacy which nearly every emperor had come into for three centuries, the secular strife of Rome and Persia..
Justinian was rather quick than strong or profound; his policy does not strike one as the result of deliberate and well-considered views, but dictated by the hopes and fancies of the moment.
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 Justinian I
Justinian was born in a small village called Tauresium in Illyricum (near Skopje), in the Balkan peninsula, probably on May 11, 483 to Vigilantia, the sister of the highly esteemed General Justin, who rose from the ranks of the army to become emperor.
Justinian was appointed consul in 521, and later as commander of the army of the east.
Justinian's religious policy reflected the imperial conviction that the unity of the empire unconditionally presupposed unity of faith; and with him it seemed a matter of course that this faith could be only the orthodox.
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Justinian I was born in a small village called Tauresina (Taor) in Illyricum (near Skopje), in the Balkan peninsula, probably on May 11, 483 to Vigilantia, the sister of the highly esteemed General Justin, who rose from the ranks of the army to become emperor.
Justinian's religious policy reflected the imperial conviction that the unity of the empire unconditionally presupposed unity of faith; and with him it seemed a matter of course that this faith could be only the orthodox.
Justinian entered the arena of ecclesiastical statecraft shortly after his uncle's accession in 518, and put an end to the Monophysite schism that had prevailed between Rome and Byzantium since 483.
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 2. Eastern Europe, 500-1025. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
Justinian was a man of autocratic character and grandiose conceptions.
Justinian's whole policy was directed toward the revival of a universal Christian Roman Empire.
Justinian suppressed all heresies and paganism (closing of the Neo-Platonic Academy at Athens, 529).
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 Justinian I - MSN Encarta
Justinian I (483-565), called The Great, Byzantine emperor (527-65), who extended Byzantine rule in the West, beautified Constantinople (present-day İstanbul), and completed the codification of Roman law.
Almost immediately upon his accession Justinian inaugurated a policy of restoration of the Roman Empire, the western part of which had been lost in the barbarian invasions of the 5th century (see Roman Empire: Fall of the Western Empire).
By the emperor's death most of the former Roman territory around the Mediterranean Sea, except for Gaul and northern Spain, was again part of the empire, despite a resumption of the Persian war in 540 and gradual Slavic infiltration in the Balkans.
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Justinian I was born in a small called Tauresina (Taor) in Illyricum (near Skopje) in the Balkan peninsula probably on May 11 483 to Vigilantia the sister of highly esteemed General Justin who rose from the ranks of army to become emperor.
Justinian achieved lasting fame for his judicial which organised Roman law in a form and organic scheme remains in use more or less unaltered some countries today (apart from obvious adaptations).
Justinian entered the arena of ecclesiastical statecraft after his uncle's accession in 518 and put an end to the Monophysite schism that had prevailed between Rome and since 483.
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Der Balkan kam was an sich nicht ungewöhnlich während der ganzen Regierungszeit Justinians nicht zur Immer wieder fielen Bulgaren und Hunnen ein da das Festungssystem sich aufgrund mangelnden Mannschaftsstärke als nicht ausreichend erwies um Sicherheit Thrakiens zu gewährleisten.
In der Frage innerkirchlicher scheiterten Justinians Ausgleichsbemühungen seine Verurteilung der monophysitischen Lehre welcher unter anderem selbst Kaiserin Theodora folgte verschärfte nur die schon existierenden zwischen den monophysitischen Kirchen Syriens und Ägyptens der antimonophysitisch bzw.
Justinian ist bis in die jüngste Vergangenheit als eine der leuchtendsten Herrscherfiguren der Spätantike gefeiert worden.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Justinian I
Justinian's reign are the most brilliant period of the later empire.
Justinian's death.) Meanwhile the Crimean Goths and all the Bosporus, even the Southern Arabs, were forced to acknowledge the rule of Rome.
Justinian also acquired immortal fame by the impetus he gave to the arts.
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Justinians Politik strebte die Wiederherstellung der Macht des Kaiserreiches über die kultivierte Ökumene nach römischem Vorbild an (Restauratio imperii).
In der orthodoxen Kirche wird Justinian jedoch ebenso wie seine Frau Theodora I. als Heiliger verehrt.
Justinian ist bis in die jüngste Vergangenheit hinein als eine der leuchtendsten Herrscherfiguren der Spätantike gefeiert worden.
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 Emperor Justinian, c.482-565
Justinian I (Flavius Anicius Justinianus), the nephew of Justin I, was born at Tauresium in Illyria, the son of a Slavonic peasant, and was originally called Sabbatius.
Justinian had the good sense to select the most able generals and under Narses and Belisarius his reign can be said to have restored the Roman Empire to its ancient limits, and to have reunited East and West.
Justinian considered fleeing Constantinople but thanks to Narses, Belisarius and Theodora, the riots were contained (35,000 rioters were killed in one day).
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 JUSTINIAN I - Online Information article about JUSTINIAN I
In the western provinces, which had been wholly severed from the empire before the publication of the Basilica, the law as settled by Justinian held its ground; but copies of the Corpus Juris were extremely rare, nor did the study of it revive until the end of the 11th century.
Long disputes and negotiations followed, the end of which was that Justinian summoned a general council of the church, that which we reckon the Fifth, which condemned the impugned writings, and anathematized several other heretical authors.
Justinian, partly from religious motives, partly because he discountenanced all rivals to the imperial university of Constantinople, closed these Athenian schools (529).
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 Roman Emperors - DIR Justinian
However, in 518, Justinian was only a candidatus under the command of the Master of Offices and although a tradition attributed to Peter the Patrician had it that the Excubitors tried to put him forward as emperor to succeed Anastasius, but he declined, the story is not credible.
Justinian felt the appeal of renovatio, and as the native son of a Latin-speaking area of the empire, he probably felt an emotional involvement in Italy.
Justinian tried at first to have him arrested, but he was never caught and in the end, Justinian let him be, tolerated in fact if not in law.
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 Iustinianus I
Justinian I (483-565), called The Great, Byzantine emperor (527-65), who extended Byzantine rule in the West, beautified Constantinople, and completed the codification of Roman law.
The nephew of Emperor Justin I, Justinian was born in Illyria and educated in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey).
Almost immediately upon his accession Justinian inaugurated a policy of restoration of the Roman Empire, the western part of which had been lost in the barbarian invasions of the 5th century (see Rome, History of: The Empire: Decline and Fall).
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 JUSTINIAN I
At the time when Justinian became emperor of the eastern Roman empire Barbaric tribes of central Europe had conquered most of the western Roman empire.
Justinian spent more than 20 years in driving the Vandals, Huns, and Franks from Italy and North Africa.
Justinian made war on heretics and he closed the Athenian schools of philosophy because he believed that they taught paganism.
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 The Justinian Society
Founded in 1935, the Justinian Society is a legal organization comprised of attorneys, judges and law students of Italian-ancestry.
Justinian Society members are engaged in activities directed toward fostering a spirit of good fellowship, maintaining honor and dignity of the legal profession, performing civic duties, administering justice, and promoting the study of law.
Each year the society, through the Justinian Foundation, awards two scholarships to outstanding law students in the Philadelphia region.
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 Royalty.nu - Byzantine Empire - Emperor Justinian the Great and Empress Theodora
Justinian and wife Theodora helmed the Roman empire in its waning days, successfully quashing invasions from the Goths, the Vandals, and other challengers.
The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire by James Allan Evans.
Justinian, the great law-giver, is portrayed as a hateful tyrant, married to ex-prostitute, Theodora.
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 Justinian
Justinian created the Justinian Code becaused he wanted to help put the world in control so that it'd be a better place to be in.
Justinian suffered a deep crisis for about 10 years of his middle years while being Emperor; including a bubonic plague that devasted the Empire and which killed about a half of the population of Constantinople.
In all of the time Justinian reigned, the time period is known to be called lots of things, mainly the most "brillant period of the later empire".
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 Justinian I. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Justinian’s policy of caesaropapism (i.e., the supremacy of the emperor over the church) included not only matters of organization, but also matters of dogma.
Justinian’s greatest accomplishment was the codification of Roman law, commonly called the Corpus Juris Civilis, executed under his direction by Tribonian.
Justinian erected many public works, of which the church of Hagia Sophia is the most notable.
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Justinian I, born Petrus Sabbatius (May 11, 483 - November 13/ 14, 565).
Theodora died in 548; Justinian outlived her for almost 20 years, and died on November 14 or 15, 565.
5 sqq.) conducted a mission among the Nabataeans, and Justinian attempted to strengthen Christianity in Yemen by despatching thither an ecclesiastic of Egypt (Procopius, Bellum Persicum, i.
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Justinian I was born in a small village called Tauresina[?] (Taor[?]) in Illyricum (near Uskup), in the Balkan peninsula, probably on May 11, 483.
His mother (Vigilantia) was the sister of the highly esteemed General Justin, who rose from the ranks of the army to become emperor, adopted Justinian as his son and ensured that he was educated.
Justinian's military career was one of rapid advancement, and a great future was opened up for him when, in 518, Justin became emperor.
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 The Reign of Justinian, 527-565   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The reign of Justinian was an extremely significant period.
Although committed to the idea of a Roman empire, Justinian recognized that his realms were basically Greek and that the imperial administration would be more effective, if the fact were recognized.
Justinian's reconquests in the west were not permanent, but his destruction or weakening of the most sophisticated and highly-romanized of the Germanic invaders was.
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Justinian I. genannt "der Große" byzantinischer Kaiser (527 - 565).
Justinians Politik strebte die Wiederherstellung der des Kaiserreiches über die kultivierte Ökumene nach römischem Vorbild an (Restauratio imperii).
Justinian ist bis in die jüngste als eine der leuchtendsten Herrscherfiguren der Spätantike gefeiert worden.
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