![]() “It goes from this intense slut shaming of the empress to how terrible Justinian was as a ruler,” says art historian Roland Betancourt, who recently gave a talk at Getty about secrecy in the Byzantine empire, “and then going like, ‘Oh yeah, and in the middle of the night, Justinian actually walked around the palace and his head floated off his body.’” ![]() In the pages of the Secret History, Procopius documents the flamboyant sexual displays of the Empress Theodora and Justinian’s imperial incompetence. A major port of trade, Constantinople was one of the largest and most cosmopolitan cities of the medieval Mediterranean world. ![]() Detailing the reign of Emperor Justinian I, and his wife Empress Theodora, in 6th-century Constantinople-present-day Istanbul, Turkey-the Secret History scandalously reports on the behind-the-scenes of the powerful Byzantine empire. ![]()
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