Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian by MICHAEL MAAS - April 2005

Cambridge University Press, April 2005. Paper Back. New. Justinian presided over the period that could properly be called the beginning of Christendom, briefly reigning over a united eastern and western empire before it slid into permanent disjunction. This <i>Cambridge Companion</i> brings together twenty essays providing a mosaic of the political, social, religious, philosophical and literary dimensions of Justinian's empire. A sampling: 'Justinian's Constantinople,' 'Law and Legal Practice,' 'Emperors and Popes in the Sixth Century,' 'Literary Culture under Justinian,' to name but a few in this substantial and detailed contribution.