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  As for the appeal of icons to popular sentiment, perhaps this was best understood by local Soviet commanders in the 1930s: when they wer...

  …the primary achievement of the new medieval Byzantium was to prevent Muslim efforts to capture Constantinople, which would have opened ...

  The power of the church’s profile dominates the skyline, the sheer bulk of the immense structure grows as one approaches by sea. Byzan...

Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire , by Judith Herrin Capturing a few interesting tidbits from Herrin’s work: Transfo...

Constantine resolved to make the city a home fit for an emperor…. -           Zosimus, New History, c. 501 Byzantium: The Surprising L...

For in contrast to other medieval societies both in the West and among the Muslims, Byzantium was old, many centuries old by the time of C...