Byzantine emperors therefore lived in ... The one exception in the empire’s thousand years was the Nika revolt of 532, when Justinian the Great, at the urging of Empress Theodora, sent soldiers ...

Anicia Juliana was a Byzantine woman who managed to conquer the fields of architecture, using her massive wealth and noble lineage.

Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora were the 6th Century golden couple of the Byzantine Empire. Think Jay-Z and Beyonce - but with a lot more chariots. Script and narration by Emma Nagouse ...

The social position of Byzantine women is not easy to assess considering the vast reach of the empire and the many cultures it encompassed.

This description of emperor Justinian “the Great” who reigned at Constantinople ... and a gifted politician who laid the foundations for the Byzantine empire’s remarkable millennium of survival? Or ...

The church flaunts a monumental Byzantine style ... of the 6th century under Emperor Justinian I. “The architecture shows striking parallels to the Eastern Roman Empire, as can be found in ...

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories ...

She was the daughter of a bear trainer and made a living as an actress and (very likely) a sex worker before catching the eye of the soon-to-be Emperor Justinian I of the Byzantine Empire.

against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian; Cethegus wants to swoop in after they have destroyed each other and create a new Roman Empire from their combined kingdoms; however, he does not factor ...

on efforts to restore the Empire in the West after its “fall”, takes a deeper look at the most successful of those efforts, that by the Eastern Emperor Justinian in the mid-sixth century. Of course, ...