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The crusade that broke Christendom
The sack of Constantinople in 1204 is often blamed for destroying the Byzantine Empire—but the empire was already imploding from corruption, civil wars, and disastrous leadership. The crusaders ...
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What if Byzantium survived into modern times
What would the modern world look like if Constantinople never fell in 1453? Imagine a Mediterranean that remained a Roman lake. No Ottoman conquest. No sack of 1204. A powerful Eastern Roman Empire ...
Obverse Image: Virgin nimbate wearing a tunic and maphorion, seated upon a throne with a back; she holds a beardless, nimbate infant Christ on her breast. Obverse Text: MP / ThV Reverse Image: Full ...
One of the world's great empires is on the move, in our imaginations and in the place that it occupies in our understanding of the modern world. Byzantium used to call to mind a sterile, bureaucratic ...
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxi, 440+. Illus., maps, table, appends., notes, biblio., index. $44.99. ISBN: 1108480713 A Byzantine ...
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