Byzantine Empire
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Empire of western Asia and southeastern Europe, named for Byzantium, the Greek name of its capital Constantinople. Formed from the eastern Roman empire and lasting until the 15th century, it... read more |
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Jonathan Phillips sees one of the most notorious events in European history as a typical ‘clash of cultures’. |
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The quest for spiritual virtue through personal austerity drove many Eastern Christians to lead solitary lives as hermits surviving in the wilderness. Andrew Jotischky describes how indifference to food became an integral part of the monastic ideal in the Byzantine era, one revived in the West in the 11th and 12th centuries. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 4
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The building of Istanbul’s new underground railway has uncovered thousands of years of history, including the first complete Byzantine naval craft ever found. Pinar Sevinclidir investigates.
Published in History Today, Volume: 59 Issue: 7
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Dionysios Stathakopoulos surveys the history of the Byzantine Empire from its foundation in 324 to its conquest in 1453. Published in History Today, Volume: 58 Issue: 11
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Marius Ostrowski explains why the Church was so dominant in the Middle ages, but also sees traces of a growing secularism. Published in History Review, 2006
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Jonathan Phillips sees one of the most notorious events in European history as a typical ‘clash of cultures’. |
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Richard Cavendish describes the Battle of Civitate. |
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Anthony Bryer considers the life and work of this great historian, who died in November 2000. Published in History Today, Volume: 51 Issue: 5
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Archaeologists in Turkey believe they could have unearthed some of the remains of the Great Palace of the Byzantine Empire which ruled much of the known world for nearly a thousand years from the heart of Constantinople.
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Penny Young details the archaeological work being carried out to save an early Christian church on the Black Sea coast.
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Nicholas Soteri reflects on the early religious controversies of Eastern Europe, focusing in particular on an often overlooked kingdom, the Khazar.. Published in History Today, Volume: 45 Issue: 4
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Archaeological wonders in the Mediterranean |
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Michael Antonucci discerns Byzantine origins in today's international power politics. Published in History Today, Volume: 43 Issue: 2
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Alexander Kazhdan considers the influence of totalitarianism and meritocracy in the Byzantine empire – and its relationship to the growth of the Russian and other successor states in the East. Published in History Today, Volume: 39 Issue: 9
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Judith Herrin considers the Jekyll-and-Hyde output of Justinian's court historian, alternately respectful official chronicler and tabloid-style exposer of imperial scandal. |
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'A people's prospects are affected by its image of its past' - Arnold Toynbee presents an exclusive extract from his book on the Greek sense of the past, The Greeks and Their Heritages. Published in History Today, Volume: 31 Issue: 11
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