| Playing Time |
115318 |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 170879 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
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Duration: 11:53:18. |
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Read by Barrett Whitener. |
| Summary |
The Emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals who had separated Italy, Spain, and North Africa from imperial rule. At his capital in Constantinople, he built the world's most beautiful building, married its most powerful empress, and wrote its most enduring legal code, seemingly restoring Rome's fortunes for the next five hundred years. Then, in the summer of 542, he encountered a flea. The ensuing outbreak of bubonic plague killed five thousand people a day in Constantinople and nearly killed Justinian himself. |
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Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527.
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Byzantine Empire -- History -- Justinian I, 527-565.
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Plague -- History -- To 1500. -- Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Whitener, Barrett, 1960-
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Tantor Media.
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| ISBN |
(sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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