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Rome, Constantinople, and the Barbarians
The American Historical Review, 1981If the physical law of inertia applies to historical developments, then perhaps the Roman Empire was legitimately destined for eternity, and those who know that it did not endure are bound to ask what interrupted its tranquil course through the ages. As Gibbon implied, Toynbee affirmed, and everyone else widely believes, they epitomized the "external ...
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The Hippodrome of Constantinople
2021The Hippodrome of Constantinople was constructed in the fourth century AD, by the Roman Emperor Constantine I, in his new capital. Throughout Byzantine history the Hippodrome served as a ceremonial, sportive and recreational center of the city; in the early period, it was used mainly as an arena for very popular, competitive, and occasionally violent ...
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, 2015
The Galician-Volhynian prince Roman Mstislavich became the main military ally of the Byzantine Empire in the early 13th century. The circumstances and the time of Roman's campaign in Niketas Choniates' account are the same as in the Russian chronicles ...
A. Maiorov
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The Galician-Volhynian prince Roman Mstislavich became the main military ally of the Byzantine Empire in the early 13th century. The circumstances and the time of Roman's campaign in Niketas Choniates' account are the same as in the Russian chronicles ...
A. Maiorov
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2003
Abstract Constantine the Great established the city of Constantinople as his capital in 323. In doing so, he occupied the former city of Byzantium, which for centuries had controlled the straits separating Asia and Europe. The Sea of Marmara is flanked northeast and southwest by the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, two narrow straits ...
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Abstract Constantine the Great established the city of Constantinople as his capital in 323. In doing so, he occupied the former city of Byzantium, which for centuries had controlled the straits separating Asia and Europe. The Sea of Marmara is flanked northeast and southwest by the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, two narrow straits ...
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French Travel Writing in the Ottoman Empire: Marseilles to Constantinople, 1650-1700
, 2015Introduction 1. The Jeweler / Voyeur. Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1689) 2. The Tourist / Ethnographer. Jean Thevenot (1633-1667) 3. The Arriviste / Envoy. Laurent D'Arvieux (1635-1702) 4. The Conquering Artist. Guillaume-Joseph Grelot (1638 - ?) 5. The
Michèle Longino
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« La merveilleuse cité de Constantin » : la valeur symbolique de Constantinople
, 2014Byzance n’avait guere vocation a devenir la capitale de l’Empire. Elle posait d’importants problemes logistiques quant a l’approvisionnement et a l’accessibilite et n’avait que peu de valeur militaire, et d’autres villes presentaient une signification ...
R. V. Dam
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, 2014
IN RECENT YEARS, ON MAY 29, A VISITOR to Istanbul interested in escaping the crowds of foreign tourists at the city’s many famous monuments and museums easily might have passed the day participating in a series of commemorations occurring throughout the ...
G. Brockett
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IN RECENT YEARS, ON MAY 29, A VISITOR to Istanbul interested in escaping the crowds of foreign tourists at the city’s many famous monuments and museums easily might have passed the day participating in a series of commemorations occurring throughout the ...
G. Brockett
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Harvard Theological Review, 1950
The story of Paul, the first man to be consecrated as bishop of Constantinople, has come down to us only in fragments. Le Nain de Tillemont made the first modern attempt to fit the fragments together into a biography. His work is characterized by a sagacity not always exhibited by more recent writers.
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The story of Paul, the first man to be consecrated as bishop of Constantinople, has come down to us only in fragments. Le Nain de Tillemont made the first modern attempt to fit the fragments together into a biography. His work is characterized by a sagacity not always exhibited by more recent writers.
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Memoires sur les colonies juives et les voyages en Palestine et en Syrie du premier octobre 1883 a la fin 1899, 2020
Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos
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Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos
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