Joan Mervyn Hussey
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Emeritus Professor of History, Royal Holloway College, University of London. Author of The Byzantine World and others.
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Justinian I was a Byzantine emperor (527β565), noted for his administrative reorganization of the imperial government and for his sponsorship of a codification of laws known as the Code of Justinian (Codex Justinianus; 534). Justinian was a Latin-speaking Illyrian and was born of peasant stock.β¦
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