The Code of Justinian, a collection of laws compiled by Byzantine Emperor Justinian, is widely regarded as the foundation of Western law.

In 542 AD, during the Gothic War—a conflict sparked by Emperor Justinian’s ambition to restore Roman rule in the West—Eastern ...

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, with a distinctive culture that ...

Prof. Heather (King’s College, London), author of a number of works on the late Roman Empire, notably The Restoration of Rome, on efforts to restore the Empire in the West after its “fall”, takes a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers from the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) have discovered an early ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. On February 1, 1935, Vatican City ...

Sometime in the middle of the sixth century, the Byzantine historian Procopius wrote his “Secret History,” an account of the reign of the Emperor Justinian, whom Procopius had come to regard as a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. On February 1, 1935, Vatican City ...