Justinian was born in Tauresium, Dardania, around 482. A native speaker of Latin (possibly the last Roman emperor to be one), he came from a peasant family believed to have been of Illyro-Roman, Thraco-Roman,

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Legislative activities
Justinian achieved lasting fame through his judicial reforms, particularly through the complete revision of all Roman law, something that had not

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During the 530s, it seemed to many that God had abandoned the Christian Roman Empire. There were noxious fumes in the air and the Sun, while still providing daylight, refused to give much heat. The extreme weather events of 535–536led to a famine such as had not

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In the Paradiso section of the Divine Comedy , Canto (chapter) VI, by Dante Alighieri, Justinian I is prominently featured as a spirit

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Procopius provides the primary source for the history of Justinian's reign. He became very bitter towards Justinian and his empress, Theodora. The Syriac chronicle of John of Ephesus,

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• Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, rebuilt by Justinian
• Flavia gens
• International Roman Law Moot Court

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1. ^ Justinian himself took the field only once, during a campaign against the Huns in 559, when he was already an old man. This enterprise was largely symbolic and although no battle was fought, the emperor held a triumphal entry in the capital afterwards. (See

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