Continually subject to change
They even say that it was not so much by flattery that she made Justinian eat from her hand as by demoniac power. For...
Public offices in Constantinople
In this he was not unique; for those who held the same office before and after him were equally dishonest. So were the Master...
Corruption
FURTHER CORRUPTION IN HIGH PLACES
Now when the Emperor and Theodora dismissed John of Cappadocia, they wished to appoint a successor to his office, and...
No more killing on pain of punishment
“No more killing!” he ordered. ‘The prophecy has been fulfilled! No more killing lest we offend the god.”
“Carry the order to the troops ahead,”...
Diocletian showed no mercy to the prostrate city
With missiles raining upon it night and day even Alexandria could not hold out forever against the might of Rome. After some eight months...
Emperor Diocletians headquarters
Of the siege machines, the ballista, the onager and the catapulta the three most commonly used worked in much the same way. For a...
After Justinian
Chapter II.
If any among them seek to introduce impious vanities, denying the resurrection or the judgment, or the work of God, or that angels...
Justinian (b.483- r.527-d.565)
Justinian (b.483- r.527-d.565): Novella 146: On Jews
A Permission granted to the Hebrews to read the Sacred Scriptures according to Tradition, in Greek, Latin or...
Manuscript once preserved at Spires
The text comes to us through four manuscripts, now at Oxford, Paris,Vienna and Munich respectively. The last named is of the sixteenth century, the...
