Justinian and Theodora - R. Browning

Robert Browning's Justinian and Theodora is both a biography of two forceful and enigmatic personalities -the peasant's son who became Emperor and the bear-keeper's daughter who was his Empress -and a history of one of the key epochs in the formation of modern Europe. Justinian's dream was to re-create the Christian Roman Empire of Constantine; his achievement -at the price of impoverishment in the East and devastation in teh West -was to regain Africa and Italy from the Germanic tribes that had established their monarchies there.

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