Justianian military and wars in books and podcasts 2025

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Mount Nebo mosaic 

The end of the year is near and there have been some books and podcasts about the military history of the emperor Justinian I. I still have an old book by Roy Boss  Justinian's War - Belisarius, Narses and the Reconquest of the West (1993) from Montvert Publishing.

Podcasts I have listened to within last month or so: 

Historians Adrian Goldsworthy and Geoffrey Greatrex talk about the Justinian I and his commander Belisarius 

and the historian Procopius (his translated books are available on Archive). 

riders without stirrups with long lances - Mount Nebo 

and here Adrian Goldsworthy is talking about the 'The Army that Retook Rome.'

* Osprey Military Publishing just released a book - Armies of Justinian the Great, AD 527-65 - by Raffale D'Amato.
I have not read yet this publication (rahter tiny 48 pages), but I have seen some plates from the book - illustrations done by Catalin Draghici and Giorgio Albertini. 

* Another publisher form UK, Helion Company, published a large (300 pages)  book, - Birth of the Byzantine Army 476-661 CE (sic!). Vol 1. Illustrations by Renato Dalmaso. 

I have not seen this book, but appears rather interesting 

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Justinian I in art

 Salvete Omnes,

 

 

let us corral some imagery depicting or thought to depict   Byzantine emperor Justinian I (died 565 AD in Constantinople ) 

 

 

who in his long days of rule(started in the spring of 527AD)  saw many wars and victories, calamities, defeats, reversals of fortune (especially his great general Belisarius) and successes, including the coming of the Slavs from the vastness of Eastern European plains and mountains.

 

including the famous Column of Justinian I

and more mosaics

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Osprey Military Publishing has a number of books on the Byzantine period - like this on the clothing from the Justinian period, but I still like the Montvert Publications book from 1993 -  Justinian's Wars by Roy Boss.
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