[image]In AD 527 acceding to the throne, Justinian was already fully conversant with the whole system of administration. Though he had just scandalized society by marrying a lowly-born dancer, Theodora, whose reputation was notorious.
He was born in Illyricum, the son of a Slavonic peasant. Was his uncle Justin rumoured not to have been able to read or write, he had not skimped on the education of his nephew Justinian, whose ambitious aims included stamping out corruption in government, refining and upholding law, uniting the churches in the east and taking Christianity forcibly to the barbarians in the west, thus recovering for the empire the territories that it had lost. [/image]

От линк за имп. Юстиниан, където е представен : the son of a Slavonic peasant.

Редактирано от Vencci R* на 18.02.06 17:49.