Justinian and the Byzantine civilization in the VI century

This book by the famous French explorer Charles Diehl (1859-1944) dedicated to the late Roman and the first Byzantine emperor - Justinian I (483-565 or 482), one of the few monarchs in history, received the prefix to his title "the Great." Wrote about him FI Uspensky, "By the breadth of their political ideas, clearly conscious and strict enforcement is on the ability to use the circumstances, and most importantly - identify talent for the art of others, and to give each corresponding to his abilities deal Justinian was a rare and wonderful sovereign. " Book Diehl is one of the most notable research on the history of the age of Justinian. As the author wrote: "A careful study of some of the documents, or insufficiently known or only recently published, I could give a new assessment of certain circumstances and, perhaps, to show the people and events in a new light ...." Diehl believed that the abundance of illustrations will give your eyes the best comment to the presentation, so the issue very carefully and abundantly illustrated, the book contains 209 engravings in the text, and 8 on a separate sheet.