Tag: Byzantine History
Magnificent Byzantine Ivories (Part 1).
Often when we associate Byzantium with art, the image of religious frescoes and mosaics always comes to mind first. Indeed, […]
History Painting: The Crusader army attacks Constantinople by Jacopo Palma il Giovane, circa 1587.
If you are a curious visitor to Italy, and make your way to Venice, in the Great Hall of the […]
The Holy Crown of St. Stephen.
Also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary, the Holy Crown of St. Stephen was the coronation crown of over […]
Today in History: Justinian I becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
The remarkable rise of a peasant boy named Petrus Sabbatius (Justinian I The Great), to the lofty heights of the […]
Today in History: The battle of Varbitza Pass and the death of Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros.
There have been many Byzantine Emperors who had died in battle – Emperors Julian, Valens and famously Constantine XI Palaiologos, […]
Empress Pulcheria: A woman truly ahead of her time.
One might wonder what the early fifth century Byzantine world would have been like if Aelia Pulcheria was not around […]
Tureta: The fortress of Emperor Justinian?
The fortress of Tureta on the Konati Islands, located on the northern stretches of Dalmatia, south of Zadar and west […]
The Queen of Cities – Constantinople – like you have never seen her before.
Have you ever wondered what the queen of cities – Constantinople – might have looked like? Today traces of the […]
Portrait of an Emperor: John VIII Palaiologos.
An Italian Renaissance painter from Florence, by the name of Benozzo Gozzoli, was commissioned to paint a three-walled cycle of […]
God’s Scourge: Attila the Hun
By special guest writer Joseph Kaminski Attila was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. […]
