These were the bleak circumstances in which the icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy was painted. It shows the world of the Byzantine Empire not as it actually was, but as it needed to be if God was ...
The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories ...
John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the ... of the last progress of the sacred icons around Constantinople (Istanbul).