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Justinian's military arm, named by Jiang as the general who carries out the emperor's reconquest.
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Belisarius
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "fully drawn to that and trusting to my belisarius my arms i found a sign for me to rest from war heaven's right hand..."
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Jiang says Justinian undertook a holy campaign to reconquer and reunify the Roman world while enforcing Trinitarian doctrine, with Belisarius acting as his general.
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At its height under Justinian and Belisarius, Byzantium almost reconstituted the Roman Empire, but peak expansion created vulnerability to plague, overextension, and military-political rivalry.
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"fully drawn to that and trusting to my belisarius my arms i found a sign for me to rest from war heaven's right hand..."
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"so the background is this okay justinian is emperor of the boston empire the eastern roman empire the western half and at this point..."
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"...who is leading the military of the Byzantines, his name is Belisarius."
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"And he is considered the last great Roman general. Okay. His military genius is on par with that of Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar, Hannibal,..."
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"...comes into conflict with the general. So even though Justinian and Belisarius, they were great friends, the wives were great friends, they themselves had..."
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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