When Justinian was crowned in 527, he named as co-regent his young wife Theodora. She was 15 years his junior and his opposite in nearly every way. She was social, witty, supremely self-confident ...

Together, Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora I transformed the Byzantine landscape. The ranks of Eastern Orthodox saints are filled with celibates and monastics, but not all Orthodox saints ...

Jamie Pachino, author of Bailiwick Repertory’s intriguing and exasperating “Theodora: An Unauthorized Biography,” sets no small goal: She wants to rescue the Byzantine Empress The… ...

THEODORA AND THE EMPEROR (336 pp.) —Harold Lamb—Doubleday ($4.50).The only surprising thing about Theodora and the Emperor is that it took Harold Lamb so long to get around to it. Subject ...

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Prokopios was the court historian of the Byzantine Empire’s most well-known rulers, Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora. In his other two books, On Wars and On Buildings, ...