The Justinian Plague

The Justinian Plague
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The Justinian Plague
Laws/government/politics of the time era of 541 a.d
Justinian code
Flavius Justinianus ascended the throne of the Roman Empire in Constantinople on April 1, 527. His primary objective was the restoration of the whole Roman Empire under one emperor, one church, one law. It appeared to him that a universal Church and a universal empire were naturally complementary, especially when the head of the state and the head of the Church were one and the same. The result was a blending of civil and ecclesiastical authority, the demonstration of a unique relationship between church and state (Sophocles, 1914).
Ecclesiastical legislation had formed part of the Theodosian Code, primarily in title XVI. The character and environment of Theodosius influenced the selection of the ecclesiastical edicts to be preserved in his code (Boyd, 1905). Such weighty problems as episcopal jurisdiction, heresy and apostasy, the immunity of the clergy from taxation, which are treated in the Theodosian Code appear also in the Justinian Code (Krueger, 1954). Thus there existed a definite relationship in the area of ecclesiastical legislation between the Justinian Code and the earlier imperial law. Justinian was obliged, however, to bring order out of the confused ecclesiastical conditions in the empire. Through his legislation, as shown primarily in the first thirteen titles of his Code, he revised and extended the privileges of the clergy and established an even more intimate union of church and state than had previously existed (Sophocles, 1914).
There are many significant government laws that relate to the bigger picture of the emergence of new patterns of its globalization, such as the accompanying narratives of warfare and conquest, trade networks and activity, various forms of human mobility, and, most significant, the rise of urban centers. Therefore, to analyze better culturally the outbreak of 1466-76, one needs to look at the emergence of trade networks and urbanization in the previous centuries that paved its way ((Wolff, 1951). In fact, it is essential to understand the development of trade networks in the thirteenth century and the emergence of the Black Death in the mid-fourteenth. This will reveal the picture prior to the rise of the Ottoman Empire, which will make it possible to analyze the changes brought about by the Ottoman Empire (Panzac, 1985).
This paragpah will attempt to determine the involvement of the Ottoman government and...