Justinian's Empire: Triumph and Tragedy - Nick Holmes
Aug 26, 2025•9 hr 16 min
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Title: Justinian's Empire: Triumph and Tragedy
Author: Nick Holmes
Narrator: Nigel Patterson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9:15:59
Language: English
Release date: 08-26-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Ancient Civilizations, Military, Philosophy
Summary:
IT WAS AN AGE OF GLORY . . . BUT ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD. The sixth-century AD witnessed a remarkable turn-around in the Roman Empire's fortunes. Justinian's general, Belisarius, recovered North Africa and Italy from the barbarians. An impressive new law code was inaugurated that would endure to this day. Astonishing building projects rivalled the great monuments of Old Rome. But rather than restoring Rome's greatness did Justinian in fact pave the way for its collapse less than a century after his death? Drawing on the contemporary sources, especially those of the chronicler Procopius, Nick Holmes reveals a darker side to Justinian—a ruthless opportunist, whose costly conquests and misguided priorities drained the empire's wealth and critically weakened its army. This is the fourth volume in Nick Holmes' series on the Fall of the Roman Empire. The first three books trace the empire's story from the 'crisis of the third century', through its reinvention by Constantine as a Christian state, and then onto the fall of its western half. A fifth volume will tell of its rapid demise in the seventh century AD, when the first Islamic Caliphate became the new superpower of western Eurasia.
https://hotaudiobook.com/free
Title: Justinian's Empire: Triumph and Tragedy
Author: Nick Holmes
Narrator: Nigel Patterson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9:15:59
Language: English
Release date: 08-26-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Ancient Civilizations, Military, Philosophy
Summary:
IT WAS AN AGE OF GLORY . . . BUT ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD. The sixth-century AD witnessed a remarkable turn-around in the Roman Empire's fortunes. Justinian's general, Belisarius, recovered North Africa and Italy from the barbarians. An impressive new law code was inaugurated that would endure to this day. Astonishing building projects rivalled the great monuments of Old Rome. But rather than restoring Rome's greatness did Justinian in fact pave the way for its collapse less than a century after his death? Drawing on the contemporary sources, especially those of the chronicler Procopius, Nick Holmes reveals a darker side to Justinian—a ruthless opportunist, whose costly conquests and misguided priorities drained the empire's wealth and critically weakened its army. This is the fourth volume in Nick Holmes' series on the Fall of the Roman Empire. The first three books trace the empire's story from the 'crisis of the third century', through its reinvention by Constantine as a Christian state, and then onto the fall of its western half. A fifth volume will tell of its rapid demise in the seventh century AD, when the first Islamic Caliphate became the new superpower of western Eurasia.
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