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Economy and society in the age of Justinian
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ISBN: 9780521117746 0521117747 9780521865432 0521865433 9780511496387 0511246439 9780511246432 9780511247125 0511247125 0511245734 9780511245732 0511496389 9786610703739 6610703736 0511244967 1107169925 9781107169920 1280703733 9781280703737 9780511244964 0511244967 0511318871 9780511318870 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The reign of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian (527-65) stands out in late Roman and medieval history. Justinian re-conquered far-flung territories from the barbarians, overhauled the Empire's administrative framework and codified for posterity the inherited tradition of Roman law. This work represents a modern study in English of the social and economic history of the Eastern Roman Empire in the reign of the Emperor Justinian. Drawing upon papyrological, numismatic, legal, literary and archaeological evidence, the study seeks to reconstruct the emergent nature of relations between landowners and peasants, and aristocrats and emperors in the late antique Eastern Empire. It provides a social and economic context in which to situate the Emperor Justinian's mid-sixth-century reform programme, and questions the implications of the Eastern Empire's pattern of social and economic development under Justinian for its subsequent, post-Justinianic history.

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