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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
”THAT is no country for old men… caught in that sensual music all neglect, Monuments of unageing intellect.” W.B. Keats from Sailing to Byzantium. All the world’s wealth seemed to pour through the trade routes of the Levant, overland from … Continue reading
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Tagged Basil II Bulgaroctonos, Byzantine Empire, Chora Museum Instanbul, Constantine The Great, Digenes Akritas, Fourth Crusade, Hagia Sophia, Kariye Cami, Kariye Camii, Renaissance Italy, Sack of Constantinople, Theodore Metochites, W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats, Yeats Sailing to Byzantium
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NOT OUR CROSS TO BEAR
Between the material and the temporal, represented in Byzantium by the emperor and the imperial body politic, and the spiritual and the eternal, represented by the saints, there is the image forming world of the soul, the world of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexius I Comnenus, Basil I the macedonian, Byzantine Art, Byzantium, Christ at Monreale Sicily, Church of Saint Catherine Mount Sinai, Constantine VII, Constantinople A.D. 330, Empress Irene Byzantium, Giles Constable, Hagia Sophia, Hellenistic art, Heraclius Byzantium, John Skylitzes, Justininian Byzantium, King Solomon, Monastery Daphne Athens, Nea Moni Chios, Ravenna Mosaics, Saint Luke Phocis, Santa Sophia Kiev, Sarsaian empire, Skylitzes manuscripts, Theodosius III Byzantium
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WHERE THE WEST WAS WON
The achievement of the Byzantines was to keep barbarians at bay, create a new art, preserve Western culture for a thousand years, and push a little further the limits of piety and depravity. It is only recently that the word … Continue reading