Constantinople and the straits: The past and the futuredoi:10.1080/14702541708554879Marion I. Newbigin D.ScScottish Geographical Journal
In the square in the heart of Constantinople, the statue of Constantine, who looked like the sun god Apollo, but holding a cross in his hand, was rising. The Christianization of the empire would take half a century from Constantine I to Theodosius I, both referred to as “the Great”. ...
The Byzantines faced overwhelming odds in workforce, naval strength, and weaponry. The situation appeared to hinge on divine intervention for salvation, reminiscent of beliefs from past centuries where it was thought that such intervention had previously spared the city during sieges. There was a gli...
Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire prior to 1453. The Byzantines had been around for a while, ruling Turkey, Eastern Europe, and parts of the Middle East for the past 1,000 years. They became very rich because of their location: anyone in Europe who wanted to trade wi...
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So it has been a few days since I’ve been on my Turkish getaway in the ancient city of Istanbul (it has had many names in the past), and so far, I’m having a great time. There is so much history here and you can literally see it stacked on itself through the many visible ...
Constantinople in front of me at last. of course the goal of this pilgrimage was Hagia Sophia - which I did not see that first day. We turned for the Pera Bridge as it got dark... I saw the Pantokrator on the hill on the left as we passed through the Aqueduct of Valens. On the...
Therewith, Psellian discourse may be regarded as representative of novel trends in eleventh-century Byzantium that anticipate the re-appearance of romantic fiction. As is argued here, such novel trends are to be understood within the context of Byzantium's continuous dialogue with its past, rather...
The Church was now looked upon as nothing more than a superstitious laughingstock by the governments and societal elites and large segments of the urbanized working class in those countries that she founded so long ago and had sustained through so many grievous trials in the past. And now here...
“I went through the busy streets of the European quarter, the beautiful large Grande rue de Pera, I went past the luxurious hotels and restaurants, past the large shops in whose windows the most tempting things were displayed in such quantity that I remained standing in astonishment and asked...