Download or read book Social Conflict in the Age of Justinian written by Peter N. Bell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Conflict in the Age of Justinian explores a range of often violent conflicts across the whole empire during AD 527-565. These conflicts were reflected at the ideological level and lead to intense persecution of intellectuals and Pagans as an ever more robust Christian ideological hegemony was established.