Saksagan
Violation of the Thracian Land Law
Codex Justinianus:
Coloni Bound to the Soil, c. 530
An earlier law had attached coloni to the soil in provinces of the Empire other than...
Ruling of Justinian to the effect
In all such cases it seems to us sufficiently wrong for the lord to prejudge the absence of his coloni, who, born in the...
Roman territory Marios protested
“Must there always be war, and suffering?” Helena had barely spoken during the spirited discussion, except to make the comment about the barbarians.
“We cannot...
Constantine could stand the strained atmosphere
On other occasions when Constantius had visited them farther and farther apart of late though they had been the small villa had been filled...
Giving half of the Empire to Maximian
Diocletian will rue the day he let Galerius Valerius Maximianus get a foot in the door,” Marios said dourly. “It was bad enough when...
Procopios on the Great Church – Hagia Sophia
Justinian’s great building project of the Church of the Holy Wisdom – Hagia Sophia – was completed in a few short years of building,...
Byzantine Architecture
A mixed style, i.e. a style composed of Graeco-Roman and Oriental elements which, in earlier centuries, cannot be clearly separated. The form of the...
Most manifold influences from the East
Only this much is certain: that in those early centuries local diversities are found everywhere; and that, even although Italy may have received the...
