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 ...

Byzantine Empress Theodora, would become an actress, prostitute, mistress, feminist, empress of the civilized world, and ...

THEODORA AND THE EMPEROR (336 pp ... the peasant emperor loses in stature and the prostitute empress takes on a regal aspect. Justinian is seen as a dull, lifelong scholar, a grubber for ...

The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I came close to uniting the ... He showed this by marrying the future Empress Theodora, who was considered a social inferior as an actress, and subjected to ...

Forget Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Justinian and Theodora were the power couple of the Byzantine era. From withstanding riots to protecting women’s rights, how did a woman from such humble beginnings ...

These words, which Dante Alighieri places in the mouth of Justinian I, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire ... It was during this time that Belisarius received the order from Empress Theodora to ...

Instead of praising Justinian’s reign and his reconquest of the West, the “Secret History” is a vehement attack on the ...

Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But a love affair with a handsome Greek whom she meets in Byzantium ...

Built by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I ... of conformity to his theology. Justinian's generosity to widows was most likely a function of his wife Theodora's influence, whose life and ...