Hello,

I am doing a paper research about the Plague of Justinian and read on Procopius that when the death toll in Constantinople skyrocketed, Justinian ordered t pile of bodies to be piled up on the city walls. Procopius also mentions that the smell was "evil" and distressed the civilians.

My questions are: was stacking up the bodies and burials the only "funerals" in Constantinople? Was burning of the bodies out of question because of the contemporary religious beliefs? Weren't people afraid of the miasmatic air that was the immediate result of Justinian's order?

Thank you very much for reading my post and for any possible contributions.