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3 10, 2017

Roman North Africa – Carthage to Augustine

By |2019-08-21T09:32:16-07:00October 3rd, 2017|Africa|Comments Off on Roman North Africa – Carthage to Augustine

Roman North Africa: This is the amphitheater in ancient Carthage where Romans killed Christians during the Decian persecution. Carthage controls the Mediterranean By the 300s BC, the North African port of [...]

22 08, 2017

Byzantine Iconoclasm: History of Christianity

By |2019-09-09T19:03:29-07:00August 22nd, 2017|Medieval, Religion|Comments Off on Byzantine Iconoclasm: History of Christianity

Byzantine iconoclasm: an Icon of St. Nicholas (Russia) Byzantine iconoclasm By the early 700s AD, the Roman Empire had seen four hundred years of religious arguments about what or who Jesus Christ was. The Arians believed that [...]

3 08, 2017

Dante Alighieri – Inferno – Middle Ages

By |2018-10-02T07:17:25-07:00August 3rd, 2017|Literature, Medieval|Comments Off on Dante Alighieri – Inferno – Middle Ages

Dante Alighieri, painted by Giotto about 1320 AD Dante wrote in Italian, not Latin Since the time of the Romans, writers who lived in Italy had always written in Latin. Virgil wrote in Latin, Ovid wrote in Latin, [...]

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