Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora were the 6th Century golden couple of the Byzantine Empire. Think Jay-Z and Beyonce - but with a lot more chariots. Script and narration by Emma Nagouse ...

Empress Theodora went from rags to riches. Theodora was the empress of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was wife of the emperor Justinian I, who reigned from 527–565. She was the daughter of the ...

Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide between nobility and slave is too great. Teodora ...

The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I came close to uniting the former Roman Empire less than a century after its fall. However, ...

Although she is sometimes referred to as Empress Wu ... and when he later became Emperor he ruled closely with Theodora. Under Justinian’s reign, likely with influence or even leadership ...

This description of emperor Justinian “the Great” who reigned at Constantinople from 527 to 565 C.E. from the contemporary Chronicle of John Malalas is a good match for how the emperor appears in the ...

Heather then follows with a discussion of the Justinian’s rise to the imperium and how he wielded power, not only reflecting his ambitions, but also in furthering his hold on the purple, since the ...