Death of Theodora
548 · Event
The empress dies of cancer at about 48, and something in the reign dies with her: Justinian, who never remarries in his remaining seventeen years, swears his oaths thereafter 'by the name of Theodora'. Her legal legacy outlives them both — rights for actresses, divorced women and the daughters she had laws written to protect.
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