{"product_id":"justinian-9780815412175","title":"Justinian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInfamous for corruption during his reign and for his marriage to the sexually voracious empress Theodora, Justinian lived in a remarkable age that saw the ascendancy of Constantinople and numerous wars around the Roman Empire's eastern borders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMr. Baker writes with a light and graceful touch. He does not hesitate to slip into slang and to use modern imagery to enforce his conviction that there is nothing so modern as the problems of the ancient world…. It is this that lifts Justinian out of the ordinary run of biography. * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eA vigorous and lively translation of scholarship into the vernacular. * New Statesman and Nation *","brand":"Cooper Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038456316247,"sku":"9780815412175","price":21.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780815412175.jpg?v=1750940361","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/justinian-9780815412175","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}