(The Conversation) — Fierce debates about visual depictions of the sacred have existed for centuries. An art historian explains the controversies in the Byzantine Empire over images of Christ. (The ...
The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense, says ...
"This book ... began life as a collection of papers delivered at Dumbarton Oaks in the course of the annual Byzantine Studies Symposium on April 22-4, 2016. The ...
AMMAN — Between 1997 and 2013, the Finnish Jabal Haroun Project (FJHP) has carried out archaeological excavations at a Byzantine monastery located on the high plateau of the Jabal Haroun Mountain, ...
A Byzantine-era monastery, from the 5th-6th centuries CE, has been uncovered near the Israeli city of Kiryat Gat, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday. The monastery features a ...
When you think of Byzantine emperors, you don’t necessarily think of flying thrones, machines and automations, do you?
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