Justinian I

Justinian I's corpus juris civilis consisted of how many parts?

Justinian reconquered part of the Western Roman Empire, retook the city of Rome (temporarily), built the Hagia Sophia, built great monuments and churches, and created (through his people) a new and improved law code, called Justinian's Code.

A lot of the laws that were used in his code are used by us.

The significance of Justinian Codes to both the modern and ancient world was that without it the ancient world's law would have been unorganized and its significance to the modern world was that it left an impression on some of today's laws.

Justinian I (or the Great) did not play any role whatsoever in the decline of the Byzantine Empire. His reign is seen as a distinct period of Byzantine history by historians. It was a period of conquest, splendour, great prosperity, important public works, administrative and religious reforms and imperial unity.

Towards the end of Justinian's rule the empire was hit by a severe plague which was one of the biggest in history. It has been called by historians the Plague of Justinian. Is impact on the empire has been compared to that of the Black Death of the Middle Ages. It probably affected the whole of Europe. It has been estimated that one quarter of the population died. The empire took a long time to recover.

Justinian tried to rebuild the Roman Empire. His armies conquered many territories, the Iberian Peninsula, north of Africa, and Italy. He modernized the Roman laws. But after Justinian's death, the Byzantine Empire began to lose territory.

The Byzantine Empire ended because of the Ottoman Turks attacking and taking over Constantinople, which was the capital causing the empire to downfall.

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To reunite the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches...now that is the right answer :)

Justinian I (or the Great) was most passionate about religion, autocratic rule, the reconquest of the lands lost by the western part of the Roman Empire and his wife, Theodora. He loved his wife very much and was distraught when she died. Although they were in conflict over religion, they supported different version of Christianity, in other matters she was his most important adviser. She stopped him from fleeing from Constantinople during the Nika riots. Justinian supported her effort to improve the condition of poor women.

Justinian I was one of the most important emperors in the history the Orthodox Church, the official church of his empire. He was described as a nursing father of the church. He put the church on a more solid footing and redefined its structure. He wanted to protect its purity and persecuted dissident Christian sects. He secured the rights of the church and the clergy and protected and expanded the monastic orders. He granted the monks the right to inherit property from private individuals and to receive annual gifts for the state and banned the confiscation of monastic property. He gave the canons of the church legal force and issued laws regarding the administration of church property, the elections, rights and obligations of the clergy, the conduct of service and episcopal jurisdiction. Justinian also persecuted dissident Christian doctrines. He rebuilt the famous Hagia Sophia Church in Constantinople and built the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, the capital of the Byzantine possessions in Italy.

Justinian I took measures to tackle corruption in the provinces and made tax collection more efficient by increasing its professionalization. Justinian's rule was quite despotic. He regulated everything in administration, law and religion tightly. It was said that the church could do nothing contrary to his will. He started the byzantine tradition of the emperor being in charge of the church.

Justinian I wanted to recover the land lost in the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire. He succeded in retaking Italy, Tunisia and eastern Algeria and southern Spain. However, these territories were then lost again.

Justinian the Great's rule has been seen as a distinct period in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire, one of splendour. It was a period of great prosperity and of significant reforms. He wanted to "restore" the empire by retaking the lands lost by the fallen Western Roman Empire and succeeded in retaking most of its Mediterranean lands. This created great prosperity and a re-flourishing of trade. Justinian embarked on an ambitious programme of public works and church building. He built a dam in eastern Turkey as a protection against floods, a bridge in northeastern Turkey to improve east-west trade and built a large granary on a Greek island to facilitate the important grain trade. He made diplomatic contacts with the Ethiopians to create a new route for the silk trade as the Persians were disrupting the usual route.

Justinian also tackled corruption in the provinces, made tax collection in more efficient and streamlined the administration. He rebuilt the famous Hagia Sophia church in Constantinople, which became the centre of Orthodox Christianity for centuries. He also built the church of San Vitale in Ravenna which is the main Byzantine legacy in Italy.

Justinian's good work was undone towards the end of his rule by one of the worst plagues in history.

Justinian the Great used the revenues from his conquests of Italy, North Africa and part of Spain to finance an ambitious programme of public works and church building.

The most famous work was the rebuilding of the Hagia Sophia, the celebrated church in Constantinople. He also rebuilt the church of of the Holy Apostles in the same city and built the church of San Vitale in Ravenna. He built a new city near his birthplace in Serbia which was named Justiniana Prima. He built a dam against floods in southwestern Turkey and the Sangarius Bridge in northwestern Turkey.

Justinian code

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Unfortunately the Canadian scientists are only impostors and the Swedish Academy was (and is) not serious.

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murder is punished by banishment(Justinians code) murder is punished by death or prison(american law)

woman and men do not have equal rights (Justinians code) mean and woman are equal (american code

The Institutes

Theodora - wife of Justinian I - was born in 500.

Justin I had several goals during his reign:

1) to recover the lands lost to the Germanic invasions by the western part of the Roman Empire. He succeed in recovering Italy from the Ostrogoths, northwestern Africa from the Vandals and part of Spain from the Visigoths.

2) to review imperial laws going back 400 years (to the time of Hadrian), scrap obsolete or unnecessary laws, make changes when necessary and clarify obscure passages. This was done through the Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law) which was also given the name Justinian Code in the 16th century. Its aim was to put the laws in a single book (previously they were written on many different scrolls), harmonise conflicting views among jurists which arose from centuries of poorly organised development of Roman law and have a coherent body of law.

3) to protect the purity of the official church (the Orthodox Church) and persecute dissident Christian sects and paganism. He secured the rights of the Orthodox church and the clergy and protected and expanded the monastic orders. He granted the monks the right to inherit property from private individuals and to receive annual gits for the state or from taxes and banned the confiscation of monastic property. He gave the canons of the church legal force and issued laws regarding the administration of church property, the elections and rights and obligations of the clergy, the conduct of service and episcopal jurisdiction. Justinian I was one of the most important emperors in the history of the Orthodox Church. He has been described as a 'nursing father' of the church, put it on a more solid footing, and redefined its structure.

4) to undertake an ambitious programme of public works to improve the infrastructure of his empire and to build or restore Christian Churches. He rebuilt the damaged Church of the Holy Apostles and the Hagia Sophia church in Constantinople, which were both badly damaged, and built the church of San Vitale in Ravenna (the centre of Byzantine rule in Italy). He built underground cisterns to secure water supply for Constantinople, including the massive Basilica Cistern (453 by 212 feet and 30 ft. high)). He built a dam is southwestern Turkey to prevent flood and the Sangiarius bridge in northwestern Turkey to secure a supply route to the east for the army. He built border fortifications from Africa to the East. Justinian restored towns damaged by an earthquake and built a new city, Justiniana Prima, as the new capital of the province of Illyria. He built a massive granary on an island near Constantinople to make the grain traffic form Egypt more efficient. He was helped in undertaking all this by the large revenues the conquests and the gaining control over the western Mediterranean generated. State revenues increased by 20%.

Justinian I also established diplomatic relations with Ethiopia to bypass the land Silk Road through Persia because there were wars with Persia and managed to establish a local production of silk.

. The Code contained nearly 5,000 Roman laws that were still considered

useful for the Byzantine Empire.

2. The Digest quoted and summarized the opinions of Rome’s greatest legal

thinkers about the laws. This massive work ran to a total of 50 volumes.

3. The Institutes was a textbook that told law students how to use the laws.

4. The Novellae (New Laws) presented legislation passed after 534

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His most enduring legacy is the Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil law), often called the Justinian code. This was a large compendium of laws dating back to emperor Hadrian. Roman Civil law was collected in a single body and was revised. It has provided the basis for the civil law of many modern countries.

In Justinian's days many people would have considered his reconquest of many of the lands lost by the Western Roman Empire as his most important achievement. He won back Italy, Africa and part of Spain.

Justinian was the emperor of the Byzantine Empire, so he lived in the palace in Constantinopolis, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Before he was brought to the city by his uncle, Justin I, he lived outside of the walls of Constantinopolis in the fields as a peasant like the rest of his family.