The Age of Justinian & Theodora (Illustrated‪)‬

The desultory war with Persia was maintained all the time under the chief command of Licelarius, a Thracian. But that general, while pushing hostilities over the border into the vicinity of Nisibis, managed so unskilfully that his whole forces were seized with a panic and fled back to Roman territory without ever having sighted an enemy. As an immediate result Licelarius was disgraced and Belisarius promoted to fill his place. The youth, as he must be called, fulfilled the expectations he inspired and thenceforward entered on that career of achievement which was to render him the military hero of his age. 


On the 1st of April, 527, Justin formally associated his nephew to the throne, with the rank of Augustus. He lived exactly four months afterwards, and on the 1st of August in the same year the sole reign of Justinian began... 


Contents include: 


CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE SIXTH CENTURY 

THE ROMAN EMPIRE UNDER ANASTASIUS 

BIRTH AND FORTUNES OF THE ELDER JUSTIN 

PRE-IMPERIAL CAREER OF THEODORA 

THE PERSIANS AND JUSTINIAN'S FIRST WAR WITH THEM 

JUSTINIAN'S FIRST WAR WITH THE PERSIANS 

THE SCHOOLS OF PHILOSOPHY AT ATHENS AND THEIR ABOLITION BY JUSTINIAN 

THE INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE EMPIRE 

THE NIKA REVOLT 

CARTHAGE UNDER THE ROMANS 

RECOVERY OF AFRICA FROM THE VANDALS 

The episodes of Stotzas and Gontharis 

THE BUILDING OF ST. SOPHIA: THE ARCHITECTURAL WORK OF JUSTINIAN 

ROME IN THE SIXTH CENTURY : WAR WITH THE GOTHS IN ITALY 

THE SECOND PERSIAN WAR 

PRIVATE LIFE IN THE IMPERIAL CIRCLE AND ITS DEPENDENCIES 

THE FINAL CONQUEST OF ITALY AND ITS ANNEXATION TO THE EMPIRE 

RELIGION IN THE SIXTH CENTURY 

JUSTINIAN AS A THEOLOGIAN 

PECULIATIRIES OF THE ROMAN LAW 

THE LEGISLATION OF JUSTINIAN 

THE LAST DAYS OF JUSTINIAN 

LITERATURE AND ART IN THE SIXTH CENTURY 

SUMMARY AND REVIEW OF THE REIGN