#byzantium

Today's poem:

Sailing to Byzantium
- by William Butler Yeats

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/780335636027752448/sailing-to-byzantium?source=share

#byzantium #poetry #WilliamButlerYeats #soul #voice #joy #jaded #hope #age #spirit

Sutton Hoo Warriors fought in the Byzantine Army, historian argues https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/sutton-hoo-warriors-byzantine-army/ #Byzantium

A new episode of Byzantium & Friends: To Miklagarðr and back again: Varangians return from Constantinople, with Sverrir Jakobsson https://www.medievalists.net/2025/03/varangians-constantinople-with-sverrir-jakobsson/ #Byzantium

New Roads, New Rome: A Byzantine Playbook for Modern Politics https://www.medievalists.net/2024/03/new-roads-new-rome-a-byzantine-playbook-for-modern-politics/ #Byzantium

Jeudi 6 mars, 14h, séminaire Manuscrits en Méditerranée,
@campuscondorcet et en ligne, avec Francesca Samori : La tradition manuscrite des œuvres du patriarche Jean XI Bekkos et le traité « Sur ses propres livres »
@IRHT_CNRS
#manuscripts #byzantium @bookhistodons
https://manuscrits.hypotheses.org/7680

Today is the feast day of Hieromartyr Eleutherius, 2nd century Bishop in #Byzantium https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/turkey/istanbul/?s=mb #travel #Turkey #history

Early Medieval Christian Basilica Discovered in Italy https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/early-medieval-christian-basilica-discovered-in-italy/ #Byzantium

Portrait of the Last Byzantine Emperor Discovered https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/portrait-of-the-last-byzantine-emperor-discovered/ #Byzantium

Portrait of the Last Byzantine Emperor Discovered https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/portrait-of-the-last-byzantine-emperor-discovered/ #Byzantium

Today is the feast day of Venerable Castinus of #Byzantium, Bishop of Byzantium in the 3rd century https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/turkey/istanbul/?s=mb #travel #Turkey #history

Interesting mix of Byzantine, Nordic and Rus elements. Image from the Assassins' Creed Valhalla artbook. #illustration #viking #norse #roman #rome #byzantine #byzantium #rus #history #art

Prochaine séance du séminaire Manuscrits en Méditerranée @IRHT_CNRS jeudi 9 janvier, 14h, @campuscondorcet et en ligne, Marie Cronier, Un groupe de manuscrits copiés pour le roi de France dans la bibliothèque du prince Maurokordatos (1731-1738)
@bookhistodons
#manuscripts #byzantium
https://manuscrits.hypotheses.org/7474

Looking for scapegoats: The betrayal of Romanos Diogenes by Trachaneiotes and Doukas at Manzikert and the role of Attaleiates’ narrative https://www.medievalists.net/2024/01/scapegoats-manzikert/ #Byzantium

Harald Hardrada: In Service to the Byzantine Empire https://www.medievalists.net/2021/12/harald-hardrada-byzantine-empire/ #Byzantium

The Sack of Thessaloniki in 904 https://www.medievalists.net/2022/12/sack-thessaloniki/ #Byzantium #MedievalMilitaryHistory #HistoryBuff

Greek Fire: The first chemical weapon? https://www.medievalists.net/2022/12/greek-fire-chemical-weapon/ #Byzantium #MedievalMilitaryHistory

Today is the feast day of Blessed Empress Theophania of #Byzantium, and Saint Nicholas Chrysoberges, Patriarch of #Constantinople https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/turkey/istanbul/?s=mb #travel #Istanbul

**The New Roman Empire**

Reviewed by Peggy Kurkowski

_“ Historian Anthony Kaldellis simply awes in The New Roman Empire, a massive undertaking that captures the large, small, and quotidian events, lives, and oh-so-many intrigues of Byzantium from the age of Constantine to its fall in 1453.”_

https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/the-new-roman-empire.

#NonFiction #BookReview #Book #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Byzantium #Empire @histodon @histodons @bookstodon

Portrait of the Last Byzantine Emperor Discovered https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/portrait-of-the-last-byzantine-emperor-discovered/ #Byzantium

Dolce & Gabanna's 2013-2014 Byzantine-inspired collection. #fashion #history #art #mosaic #byzantium #byzantine #roman