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Michael III, the "Alcoholic" Byzantine Emperor, ruled surprisingly well despite his controversial behavior and personal ...
The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...
A museum that opened this week in Cyprus showcases priceless early Christian artworks, many of which were recovered after being stolen from churches in the north of the war-split island.
The Iconoclasm dispute was a struggle against the reliance on monastic art to venerate religious figures, and despite its ultimate failure, it did succeed in opening up Byzantine art and culture ...
This course examines the art and architecture of the Byzantine empire from its sources in Late Antique ... their rejection during Iconoclasm, and their theological justification. The city of ...
How to decide which ones are to be preferred: Anyone familiar with this site knows that I seek to avoid sectarian warfare. That is not because I think the differences between the big three (Roman ...
You'll have to pardon those slightly sardonic quotes, because I'm afraid this is that kind of story: a bit iconoclastic, and likely to provoke ... a lifelong student of the byzantine inner workings of ...
"That's where a lot of the energy in the MAGA movement is." Trump presented himself as the iconoclastic opposite of the more polished Democrats when he won his first term. By the time he won his ...