“[Theodore] made very large pits, inside each of which 70,000 corpses were laid down. He thus appointed men there, who brought down corpses, sorted them and piled them up....
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When Rome fell in 473AD, Constantinople became the capital of the remnants of the Roman Empire. Virtually every province west of Greece had fallen to the Goths or barbaria...
In 527, Vitalian sails to Alexandria to study but, instead, falls in love with an exotic pagan, Passara. Spurned, the young Byzantine noble enlists in the legions. In 530,...
Engrossing and moving, this sequel about the second part of Theodora’s life as empress of Byzantium opens with intrigue as one of Justinian’s old enemies, Cappodocian John...
An unputdownable novel about the Empress Theodora, considered by many the most influential and powerful woman in the history of the Byzantine Empire. The reader follows he...
VI век нашей эры. Распад родового строя у приднепровских (восточных) славян. Связанные общностью речи, быта и культуры, вынужденные обороняться против разбойничьих набегов...
Цивилизация, отнюдь не уступавшая западноевропейской в Средние века - и, напротив, во многом се превосходившая.
В школах Константинополя обсуждали тончайшие нюансы литер...
A richly told story of the collision between nature’s smallest organism and history’s mightiest empire
The Emperor Justinian reunified Rome’s fractured empire by defea...
Эдвард Гиббон - автор величайшего исторического труда по истории позднего Рима. Эта книга - сокращенный вариант многотомного труда знаменитого историка. Сочинение, до сих ...
The first of these two volumes might be entitled the “German Conquest of Western Europe,” and the second the “Age of Justinian.” The first covers more than one hundred and...
Nephew of a semi-literate peasant, Justinian I was one of the most fascinating of the Roman emperors. His reign marked a blossoming of Byzantine culture, and his prolific ...
Even by modern standards, the Empress Theodora (?-548) had a remarkable rise to power. Born into the lowest class of Byzantine society, she worked as an actress in burlesq...
Theodora's meager beginnings as the daughter of a bear-keeper could not have foretold her astonishing future as the wife of Justinian, the powerful ruler of the Byzantine ...
The Council of Chalcedon in 451 divided eastern Christianity, with those who were later called Syrian Orthodox among the Christians in the near eastern provinces who refus...
The reign of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian (527–65) stands out in late Roman and medieval history. Justinian re-conquered far-flung territories from the barbarians, over...
John Lydus and the Roman Past offers a new interpretation of the emergence of Byzantine society as viewed through the eyes of John Lydus, a sixth-century scholar and civil...
The Age of Justinian examines the reign of the great emperor Justinian (527-565) and his wife Theodora, who advanced from the theatre to the throne. The origins of the irr...
When Justinian first assumed the title of Roman Emperor in 527 CE, his inherited empire―now based in Constantinople― had lost almost all of its connection with the Eternal...