Justinian : : Empire and Society in the Sixth Century /

Justinian : : Empire and Society in the Sixth Century / / F. Haarer.

Surveys the current debates in modern literature and provides a wide selection of translated sourcesOffers a fresh account of the remarkable reign of JustinianIncludes up-to-date discussion of current debates, including the lands and peoples shaped by Justinian’s foreign policiesDocuments include ei...

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Haarer, F.,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Debates and Documents in Ancient History : DDAH
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Series Editors’ Preface
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Maps
  • Part I Debates
  • Introduction: Discovering Justinian – Sources and Scholarship
  • Chapter 1 Rise to Power
  • Chapter 2 Conflict and Diplomacy on the Eastern Frontier
  • Chapter 3 The Wars of Reconquest
  • Chapter 4 Church and State
  • Chapter 5 Governing the Empire
  • Chapter 6 Culture and Society
  • Conclusion: Longevity and Legacy
  • Part II Documents
  • 1. Collectio Avellana 147
  • 2. Anonymus Valesianus 85–7
  • 3. Marcellinus Comes 521
  • 4. Diptych announcing the consulship of Justinian, 521
  • 5. Greek Anthology I.10 On the Church of the Holy Martyr Polyeuktos
  • 6. Church of SS Sergius and Bacchus inscription
  • 7. Procopius, Secret History 9.20–2
  • 8. John of Ephesus, Lives of the Eastern Saints 13
  • 9. Cassiodorus, Variae X.20
  • 10. Procopius, Buildings I.9.5–10
  • 11. C.J. I.5.12.4–10
  • 12. Gold coin of Justin and Justinian, 527
  • 13. Procopius, Wars I.24.33–7
  • 14. Menander the Guardsman, fragment 6.1
  • 15. C.J. I .29.5
  • 16. The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor, IX.8a
  • 17. Procopius, Wars I.14.45–54
  • 18. Malalas, Chronicle 477–8
  • 19. Procopius, Secret History 24.12–14
  • 20. Evagrius, Ecclesiastical History IV.27
  • 21. Agathias, The Histories IV.30.7–10
  • 22. John of Ephesus, Church History 3.4.6–9
  • 23. Procopius, Wars VIII.17.1–8
  • 24. Procopius, Wars IV.6.30–4
  • 25. John the Lydian, de Magistratibus III.55
  • 26. Corippus, In laudem Iustini minoris 1.276–87
  • 27. Victor of Tonnena, Chronicon 534
  • 28. Procopius, Buildings I.10.16–18
  • 29. C.J. I.27.1, 12–14
  • 30. Procopius, Secret History 18.5–10
  • 31. Inscription from Aïn Djelloula (Cululis)
  • 32. Cyril of Scythopolis, Life of St Sabas 74
  • 33. Novel 37, preface, 1, 5
  • 34. Facundus of Hermiane, In Defence of the Three Chapters, preface
  • 35. Procopius, Wars VII.37.1–7
  • 36. Epistulae Austrasicae XX
  • 37. Procopius, Wars III.2.1–6
  • 38. Cassiodorus, Variae XI.1
  • 39. Pope Pelagius, Letters 4 and 85
  • 40. Novels, Appendix 7: Pragmatic Sanction, 554
  • 41. Procopius, Secret History 11.5–8
  • 42. Procopius, Wars II.4.4–11
  • 43. Novel 11, preface, 4
  • 44. Agathias, Th e Histories V.13.5–6
  • 45. Agathias, Th e Histories V.15.7–8
  • 46. Theophanes am 6050
  • 47. Isidore, History of the Goths 47
  • 48. The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor, IX.15j
  • 49. C.J. I.1.6 and Chronicon Paschale 533
  • 50. ‘Only-begotten Son’ troparion
  • 51. Victor of Tonnena, Chronicon 540
  • 52. Novel 42, preface
  • 53. Victor of Tonnena, Chronicon 543
  • 54. Evagrius, Ecclesiastical History IV.38
  • 55. Cyril of Scythopolis, Life of St Sabas 85
  • 56. Justinian, On the Orthodox Faith
  • 57. Evagrius, Ecclesiastical History IV.39
  • 58. Agapetus, Advice to the Emperor Justinian
  • 59. Novel 131, preface, 1–4
  • 60. Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, Chronicle 844
  • 61. Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, Chronicle 845
  • 62. Cyril of Scythopolis, Life of St Sabas 72
  • 63. Evagrius, Ecclesiastical History IV.10
  • 64. Institutes, preface
  • 65. Novel 25, preface
  • 66. Novel 47, preface
  • 67. Justinian, the first dated copper coin, ad 538
  • 68. Novel 38, preface
  • 69. Evagrius, Ecclesiastical History IV.29
  • 70. Procopius, Secret History 17.5
  • 71. Romanos, Kontakion 54, 14–25
  • 72. Paul the Silentiary, Ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia, lines 1–80
  • 73. Procopius, Buildings I.2.1–12
  • 74. Procopius, Buildings V.8.4–9
  • 75. Procopius, Buildings I.11.10–15
  • 76. Greek Anthology IX.641
  • 77. C.J. I.5.18.4
  • 78. C.J. I.11.10
  • 79. Agathias, Th e Histories II.30.3–4
  • 80. Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, Chronicle 852
  • 81. Choricius, Oratio XIII, preface, 10–16
  • 82. Greek Anthology I.8
  • Chronology
  • Popes and Patriarchs
  • Glossary
  • Further Reading
  • Essay Questions and Exercise Topics
  • Primary Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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