id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9144 Justinian I - Wikipedia .html text/html 10477 1185 67 Justin, who was commander of one of the imperial guard units (the Excubitors) before he became emperor,[22] adopted Justinian, brought him to Constantinople, and ensured the boy's education.[22] As a result, Justinian was well educated in jurisprudence, theology and Roman history.[22] Justinian served as a candidatus, one of 40 men selected from the scholae palatinae to serve as the emperor's personal bodyguard.[23] The chronicler John Malalas, who lived during the reign of Justinian, describes his appearance as short, fair skinned, curly haired, round faced and handsome. Events of the later years of the reign showed that Constantinople itself was not safe from barbarian incursions from the north, and even the relatively benevolent historian Menander Protector felt the need to attribute the Emperor's failure to protect the capital to the weakness of his body in his old age.[64] In his efforts to renew the Roman Empire, Justinian dangerously stretched its resources while failing to take into account the changed realities of 6th-century Europe.[65] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9144.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9144.txt