Byzantine Empire

Part 2 (by Jackie and Hanna)A new culture

The Emperor Justinian

A New Culture• They did not call them

the Romans even though many were descended from a Roman family.

• Their language was Greek.

• They were Christians, but did not follow the Catholic faith of the Romans.

Women in the Byzantium Society

• Some women in the Byzantine society protected their virtue by entering convents.

• Women and girls were not allowed in the outside world.

Women in the Byzantium Society 2

• Women could travel outside the place, but only with a servant with them.

• Aristocratic women were usually very well educated, but were usually not allowed to study classical literature.

• Anna Comnena, a daughter of Emperor Alecuis the first, was very well educated wrote a history of her father’s reign.

The Emperor Justinian• Emperor Justinian

became an emperor at age 44

• He spent a lot of time studying about music, architecture, and politics.

• He wanted his people to be comfortable and successful.

The Emperor Justinian 2

• He made changed in a lot of things to make the lives of his people to be better.

• One of the reforms had to do with the rights of women.

Byzantine law & Aristocratic Society

• Byzantine emperors were responsible to establish righteousness.

• Justinian Code: Collection of 10 books, which holds the establishments that was used from the time when Emperor Hadrian was in power.

Byzantine law & Aristocratic Society 2

• Corpus juris civilis,: “body of civil law” had basic outline of the Byzantine law.

• Justinian’s code was rediscovered and was used as the main source of legal structures from Western Europe by the 1100s.

Art and Architecture • In churches, cathedrals,

and brutal chambers, there were a lot of mosaics.

• The architects built churches by placing a round dome over a square foundation.

• Byzantine architecture influence all over Europe and Asia.

This is a mosaic shows Apollinaris, the patron saint of the church of San Apillinaire.

Aristocratic Society

• Law codes were applied to everyone but discrimination still existed then

• “Nobility” were defined mainly by the political offices

• Positions based on MERIT• your status can also be obtained by birth• Some people only marries people who has

the same social status as them

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