Peter Sarris on 'Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint'

The Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology and the Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Liverpool are delighted to announce Professor Peter Sarris’ talk on his new book on Justinian, titled ‘Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint’.

Peter Sarris is Professor of Late Antique, Medieval and Byzantine Studies at the University of Cambridge. He has published extensively on the social, economic and legal history of Late Antiquity, the Early Middle Ages and Byzantium, with a particular focus on the political economy of the East Roman Empire from the fourth to sixth centuries, the transmission of Roman economic and legal culture, and the background to the rise of Islam. He is also a leading authority on the 'Plague of Justinian' and the 'Age of Justinian' more generally.

The talk will take in room 126MP-113. This venue is Building 114 (C4) on the campus map. 

Mosaic of Iustinianus I (Justinian the Great) image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Author Petar Milošević.