In 1453, the Ottomans seized Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and the life of its last emperor, Constantine ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered a medieval house that contained even older gold coins, which date to the reign of ...

For the Byzantine Empire around 1400 ... and with her is her child, the boy Emperor Michael, both of them wearing elaborate Imperial crowns. Below them, in the bottom of the picture, stand ...

For hundreds of years, the territory of modern Ukraine was divided between various European powers—primarily the Russian and ...

Byzantine writers christened the city as "the second eye of the empire", "overseeing the western provinces". Unsleeping vigilance was needed: a Byzantine garrison quartered in Solun had to endure ...

Basil was short, ugly, smelly and not at all like a Byzantine Emperor. He wore everyday clothes rather than bejewelled finery, and appeared in armour rather than in an emperor's robes on state ...

ISBN: 1108480713 A Byzantine Scholar-Emperor On the night of April 12 ... His fragile dynasty was soon overthrown by his political enemy, Michael VIII Palaiologos (1223-1282). The Palaiologos dynasty ...

Stewart, Michael Edward 2023. A Tangled Web ... This lively and personal book explains some key aspects of how people of the Medieval Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) conceived of men and women, ...

It defined itself against the Byzantine Empire, with its all-powerful bureaucracy ... You have to kill it. Michael Warren Davis is the author of The Reactionary Mind (Regnery, October 2021).

Explore Greek philosopher Pletho Gemistos, his radical reforms, influence on Renaissance thinkers, and the revival of ...

Orhan Pamuk’s 2009 novel “The Museum of Innocence,” takes place in the 1970s and 1980s and is about a wealthy man’s intense ...

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