Justinian in Podcasts
personByzantine emperor who reigned from 527 to 565, known for his legal reforms and church influence.
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So Justinian is a sort of point at which the East reaches a measure of separation from the West, not an absolute separation.
This is when the division between East and West became palpable with Justinian's control of parts of Italy.
But when Justinian conquered Italy, Italy for a time became unoccupied.
Well, Justinian wanted that to be true so he could justify his invasion of Italy and his efforts to conquer Italy.
It's very interesting that it was a historian, Marcellinus, in Justinian's court who in his chronicle first declared that the Western Roman Empire had ended in 476.
He saw to the codification of the Roman law, which had become kind of complicated, and here a law, there a law, hard to find the precedence in law, and led to the preparation of Justinian's Code, which became the foundation of much legal theory in the whole medieval period and beyond.
That academy had been open almost a thousand years as a center of pagan philosophy, and it came to an end under Justinian.
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