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Justinian I
Justinian I, also known as Justinian the Great, was the emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 527 to 565 AD.
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What were two of Justinian major accomplish?
He was a powerful Emperor and ordered all outdated or unchristian laws.
What was the signinficance of the justianian code to both the ancient and modern world?
In the ancient times without the code their laws would have been very unorganized and in the modern world Justinian's Code left an impression on some of today's laws.
What is an Empress Theodora quote?
Theodora advised Justinian not to flee for his life but to stand and fight. "For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile."
Another quote was, "It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women."
Justinians codification of roman law resulted in?
The codification of Roman law under Justin impacted various areas of Roman living; however, three specific areas were the most relevant. First, it hardened laws against heresy and Roman citizens were expected to have Christian faith. Secondly, Christianity was stamped as the stateâ??s religion. Lastly, pagan practices were strictly outlawed. Mere attendance at a pagan ritual could result in death.
What legal code is Justinian I famous for rewriting?
The Corpus Juris Civilis(Body of Civil Law), which was also dubbed the Justinian Code was a compendium of Roman civil law which was commissioned by the emperor Justinian I (or the Great, reigned 527-565). A first edition was published in 529 and a second one in 534. Its rediscovery in the 10th century led to the spread of the influence of Roman civil law through Europe
This work was forgotten after the fall of the Roman Empire until it was discovered in a library in Pisa in 1070. It had a big impact because many people were impressed with the key principles of Roman civil law: citizenship and citizenship rights, equality under the law, the right to a trial and the right to appeal, innocent until proven guilty, that the burden of proof rest on the accuser and not on the accused, and that an unfair law can be repealed. It also included important essays on law and student textbooks which facilitated the study of law. Eventually, though this work, Roman civil law became the foundation of the civil laws of many modern countries.
The Corpus Juris Civilis came in four parts:
1) The Codex (book) or Codex Justinianus, which was a review of imperial laws going back 400 years (to the time of Hadrian). It scrapped obsolete or unnecessary laws, made changes when necessary and clarified obscure passages. Its aim was to put the laws in a single book (previously they were written on many different scrolls), harmonise conflicting view among jurists which arose from centuries of poorly organised development of Roman law and have a coherent body of law. It consists of 12 books, 1 book covers ecclesiastical law, the duties of high officers and sources of law, 7 cover private law, 1 criminal law and 3 administrative laws.
2) The Digesta which was a collection of fragments taken from essays on laws written by jurists (mostly from the 2nd and 3rd centuries) and which expressed the private opinions of legal experts. Most were from Ulpian (40%) and Paulus (17%). It was a large amount of writing which was condensed in 50 books. It was used as an advanced law student textbook.
3) The Institutiones was a textbook for first year law students written by two professors. It was a series of extracts from statements on the basic institutions of Roman law from the teaching books by 'writers of authority.' In was largely based on the texts of Gaius, a jurist of the 2nd century AD.
4) The Novellae Constitutiones, which contained laws recently issued by Justinian.
What were justinians goals in creating the code?
The Justinian Code was very important because it was used as a fundamental law basis even in the U.S.
Did religion play a role in the decline of byzantine?
No, as religion was what kept The Empire going.
Justinian most important achievement was probably?
Justinian's most important achievement was more than likely his law code.
Why did Justinian feel threatened by Belisarius?
Belisarius was an extremely popular, well liked general who had also been very successful. Justinian knew that if Belisarius chose to, he could start a rebellion and possibly assasinate Justinian. He didn't want to take this chance, and so did all he could to tarnish his reputation and destroy his ability to cause him harm.
Where would a portrait of the emperor Justinian most likely be found?
Two famous mosaic's exist of Emperor Justinian I of the Byzantine Empire. One is located in the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy and another in the Basilica of Sant' Apollinare Nuovo, also in Ravenna.
Byzantine empire under Justinian?
byzantine under the emperor Justinian had a golden age. he rebuild the haga shopha. and wrote the justininans code.
What made it difficult for the byzantine empire to hold on to Justinians conquests?
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Answer:
It was difficult for the Byzantine Empire to hold onto Justinian's conquest because there wasn't enough money, and he had conquered to much, too quickly.
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Constantine.
It was a complex Legal code - a body of laws. There were four principal subparts- The Codex proper- the body of laws- in effect throughout the Empire, the Pandex or Digest ( sort of like an all-subjects index- arranged according to subject, as are modern Canon Law digests.( Pan means all in Latin, as in Pan-American). The Institutes was the third part of the code and this took the form of a textbook or technical manual for training legal staff. Finally there was the Novellae- best translated as News- a supplement of Newer laws. So the main parts of the code were the Codex, Pandex ( not Spandex), Institutes, and Supplement, or New. there you have it. get the to the Court House.
How did Justinian and theodora end the nika revolt?
the king wanted the people at the Hippodrome captued and killed, so he told his soilders that. His soilders went to the Hippodrom and found everyone killed. and dies
What rights did women earn during Justinians reign?
they got more freedom and they were treated better by the men
Why could Justinian call himself a new Caesar?
Justinian ruled almost talk the territory that Rome like the last of the old Caesars.
What was Justinian's army like?
Justinian I came to power in the 500's AD, very shortly after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. In the late 300's AD, the Roman Emperor Diocletian separated the Roman army into a few distinct categories. In descending order they were:
Scholae: the elite guard of the Emperor, protectors of first Rome and then Constantinople. These men were the Elite of the Roman Army and were meant to replace the Praetorian Guard, an organization charged with protecting the Emperors created by Augustus Caesar during his reign some four centuries previous. These men were considerably more loyal than the Praetorians and served the Roman Emperors until the 9th century AD.
Comitatenses: These men were the replacement for the classical Roman Legions. Each Roman Province in both the East and West had a legion or two of Comitatenses stationed in its capitol city. Additional Legions were stationed in Rome and Constantinople to be deployed as needed.
Pseudocomitatenses or Limitanei: These soldiers were border guards stationed along the borders of the Roman Empire to guard it against the hordes of Barbarians looking to get into Roman lands. With equipment and training only slightly lesser than their Comitatenses brothers, these men are largely thought of to be weak in comparison to the Comitatenses; however, the difference int their equipment is not to be overstated.
When the Western Roman Empire fell, the East remained strong, and Diocletian's system was so effective that it prevailed to Justinian's time; however, Justinian made some slight augmentations to this system. Since his initial territories included Anatolia and Thrace, he had a population predisposed to horseback riding. Therefore, Justinian augmented the Diocletian system with a very robust cavalry system, including the Eastern Roman Empire's most recognizable type of soldier: the Cataphract.
Cataphracts (Greek Kataphraktos, Latin Clibinarius) were soldiers coated in chain mail riding horses also coated in chain mail. Footsoldiers sometimes called them walking ovens because wearing armor as heavy as theirs raised one's bodily temperature to insufferable heights. While the Cataphracts were anything but comfortable in battle, they had one advantage overwhelming force working for them: brute force. Between the Cataphract and his horse, there was a lot of weight to just one of the horsemen, so when a group of over a hundred of the men charged an enemy line simultaneously, the effect was devastating. Justinian used these mighty soldiers to demolish his enemies.
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, there was little to no military organization to the armies of Western Europe and Northern Africa, and so with brilliant generals like Belisarius at his side and armies stocked with -for all intents and purposes- Roman Legionaries and Cataphracts of his own creation, Justinian was able to tear through his opposition like a knife through papyrus.
