Part three was the Institutiones, a primer for young law students, written by Tribonian and two others: Dorotheus and Theophilus. It was published in 533, and concluded Justinian’s new legal ...

Over the course of two centuries, the Justinian plague wiped out up to an estimated 50 million people and may even contributed to the decline of the mighty Eastern Roman Empire. Now microbial ...

The Justinian plague struck in the sixth century and is estimated to have killed between 30 and 50 million people—about half the world's population at that time—as it spread across Asia ...

Introduction -- Abbreviations and short titles -- Institutiones nostrae. Transcription norms. Photocopy: plates I-IV. Transcription -- Commentary. 1. The manuscript and the editions and recent ...