Justinian – Byzantine Reconquest
Justinian was a Roman emperor in the 500s AD. He tried to reconquer the old Roman Empire all around the Mediterranean Sea, but he didn't quite manage it. Justinian's wife was Theodora.
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Leo to Empress Irene – Byzantine History
Leo the Isaurian (ca. 720 AD, Louvre museum, Paris) Anastasius II When Justinian II's assassin Philippicus turned out to be a worthless party animal, other Roman officials killed him. In 713 [...]
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Comneni Dynasty – Byzantine history
Alexios I Comneni, the Byzantine emperor (1081 AD) The Battle of Manzikert The Battle of Manzikert in 1071 was the end of Basil's Armenian Dynasty. The Byzantines had lost Armenia to Alp Arslan [...]
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Basil, Zoe, and the Armenian Dynasty
Basil starts the Armenian Dynasty In 867 AD, Basil killed Bardas and took over as Roman Emperor. That started the Armenian Dynasty. People call it that because of Basil's Armenian ancestors. (Sometimes people call it the Macedonian [...]
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Anastasius to Justin – Byzantine history
The Byzantine empress Ariadne, who married Anastasius. Now in the Louvre museum in Paris Anastasius becomes Roman Emperor When the Roman Emperor Zeno died in 491 AD, his widow Ariadne chose one of [...]
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Medieval Russian art
Russian Icon of Saint Nicolas, 13th - early 14th century, tempera on wood. Our knowledge of Russian art begins with the Scythians and other Central Asian art. But what most people think of [...]
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Byzantine pottery – Middle Ages
(Metropolitan Museum, New York) After the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire, the remaining part of the Roman empire in West Asia and Egypt kept on using Roman red pottery. But by [...]
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Iconoclasm and Byzantine art history
Artemis, carved in ivory in Constantinople (now in the Cluny museum, Paris) The art of Rome continued in an unbroken tradition from the days of the Republic down to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman [...]
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Byzantine Greece – medieval history
Byzantine Greece Byzantine Greece: Interior of Hagia Sophia After the collapse of the western part of the Roman Empire around 400 AD, the Romans continued to rule Greece , but [...]
