Guerras secretas : conflitos e negociações na corte do imperador Justiniano

• Autor(a) principal: Mamedes, Kelly Cristina da Costa Bezerra de Menezes
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMT
• Texto Completo: http://ri.ufmt.br/handle/1/2953
• topic: Justiniano; Poder; Corte; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA; Justinian; Power; Court

During time span that marks the Early Byzantine age stretching from the fourth to the seventh century, Emperor Justinian stands out as one of the most important emperors. The monarch no doubt impressed his personality not only in the sixth century, but in history, and consolidated as a ruler who concentrated on his hands the power over the empire, being thus considered an autocrat emperor. Among the important changes that took place in Late Antiquity we emphasize the one referring to the imperial power, that is, the emperors no longer left their palaces to directly direct the affairs of State, as was the practice of the old Caesars, they were no longer the generals ahead of their armies in military campaigns, here was a time of a more specialized bureaucracy, and emperors ruled as tools of this institution, mostly through meetings and writing. Justinian is one of the late late emperors who nomed as court emperors, such a feature makes the courtier environment a first-rate political space. Within this new sphere of power, social groups are formed around the emperor, with increasingly elaborate organizations. The Emperor Justinian, even though he is an autocrat, needs to use this apparatus to govern, for that it is necessary to use strategies such as giving and receiving, persuasion, negotiation, imposition. At last, to negotiate was a constant game to be worked by that monarch who wanted to have a long life in the power. Although it was the highest authority no ruler could suppose that its power was unlimited. This research seeks to understand how these relations of power were presented during the reign of Justinian, marked by the principles of conflict and negotiation especially in the environment that was par excellence of the locus of power, that is, the Court, using as a source the work of Procópio of Caesarea, a late antiquity historian, who was General Belisario's war adviser during the military campaigns of the Reconquista, promoted by Justinian.