Resumen de The year of darkness
The year is AD 536, and Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea has just arrived in southern Italy. The balance of power in the Mediterranean is in flux: Vandals had sacked Rome in 455 and the Western Roman Empire had fallen in 476. Justinian I, the Byzantine Emperor, is determined to reclaim the lost territories. After a successful campaign against the North African Vandal Kingdom in the early years 530s, Justinian dispatches his army to take Italy. Yet as Procopius records, something odd then happened. The sun dimmed and the world shivered, leading to famine, plague and the fall of empires. Here, Barras reports clues are at last emerging about the cause of this event.
