The Age of Justinian and Theodora, Vol. 1

Download or read book The Age of Justinian and Theodora, Vol. 1 written by William Gordon Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Age of Justinian and Theodora, Vol. 1: A History of the Sixth Century Although the age of Justinian is the most interesting and important in the whole series of the Byzantine annals, no comprehensive work has hitherto been devoted to the subject The valuable and erudite "Vita Justiniani" of Ludewig I is more of a law book than of a biography, and less of a circumstantial history than of either. The somewhat strange A medley published by Isambert under the title "Vie de Justinien" is scarcely a complete chronology of the events, and might be called a manual of the sources rather than a history of the times. Excellent accounts, however, of Justinian are to be found in some general histories of the Byzantine Empire as well as in several biographical dictionaries, whilst monographs of greater or lesser extent exist under the names fr of Perrinus, Invemizi, and Padovani, etc., but any student of the period would decide that it deserves to be treated at much greater length than has been devoted to it in any of these books. In the present work the design has been to place before the reader not only a record of events, but a presentment of the people amongst whom, and of the stage upon which those events occurred. I have also attempted to correlate the aspects of the ancient and the modem world in relation to science and progress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.