Posted by Powee Celdran WARNING: THIS WILL BE A LONG ARTICLE!! Also the final article for 2019! Welcome back to another article by The Byzantium Blogger and Happy Holidays! This here will be my year-ender article for this year 2019 and like all the other articles I previously did, this will be still long butContinue reading “Greatest and Worst Byzantine Emperors (330-1453)- Year End Article”
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12 Turning Points in Byzantine History
Posted by Powee Celdran “Ever since our rough crusading forefathers saw Constantinople and met, to their contemptuous disgust, a society where everyone read and wrote, ate food with forks and preferred diplomacy to war, it has been fashionable to pass the Byzantines by with scorn and to use their name as synonymous with decadence.” -Steven Runciman, 20thContinue reading “12 Turning Points in Byzantine History”
The Byzantine Imperial Personality through the lives of the Emperors Part1
Posted by Powee Celdran “It does have a kind of Byzantine quality to it. There is a good bit of strange stuff going on” -John Green Part1- Personalities of the Byzantine emperors from Constantine the Great to Theophilos (4th to 9th centuries) Next: Part2- Personalities of the Byzantine emperors from Basil I to Manuel I WelcomeContinue reading “The Byzantine Imperial Personality through the lives of the Emperors Part1”