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Hace 2 días · The Great Schism of 1054 marked a pivotal moment in the history of Christianity, permanently dividing the once-unified Christian church into two distinct branches: the Western Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.This seismic event, rooted in longstanding tensions between the Byzantine Empire in Constantinople and the Roman papacy, culminated in a mutual excommunication that ...
Hace 3 días · This rich volume, Byzantium and the Other: Relations and Exchanges, is one of three collections of essays designed to bear testament to the legacy of the late Byzantine scholar Angeliki Laiou. The other two volumes are entitled: Women, Family and Society in Byzantium and Economic Thought and Economic Life in Byzantium.
Hace 2 días · On 13 April 1204 the western or Latin armies participating in the Fourth Crusade conquered Constantinople, the capital of Byzantium. The approaching 800th anniversary of that event has generated renewed interest in the background, context and impact of that crusade, expressed in several new studies and in conferences.
Hace 3 días · The Hagia Sophia is an architectural marvel and one of the most sacred places in two major world religions. Constructed under the orders of the Roman emperor Justinian I in 537 CE, Hagia Sophia, or a “Church of Divine Wisdom”, served as the world’s largest Christian cathedral for nearly a thousand years.Located in the heart of the Byzantine Empire in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Hagia ...
Hace 3 días · It was the tragic climax of the history of the Byzantine Empire, which provided some consolation for the humiliation of its decline, reduced as it was in its final years to little more than Constantinople itself.
Hace 6 días · Byzantine music (Greek: Βυζαντινή μουσική, romanized: Vyzantiné mousiké) originally consisted of the songs and hymns composed for the courtly and religious ceremonial of the Byzantine Empire and continued, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in the traditions of the sung Byzantine chant of Eastern Orthodox ...
Hace 1 día · The MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies enables students to specialise in an exciting and multi-faceted field of study that covers the history and culture of the Mediterranean world during the long millennium from the foundation of Constantinople in 324 to the fall of the Byzantine empire in 1453. Taking this MA at Royal ...
