Byzantium

Over the past 2,000 years, Christianity has impacted and influenced my parts of the world today. In fact, Christianity is one the popular religions being practiced in daily life. It makes you ask yourself how did we get here as Christians, what obstacles did we have to take to keep our beliefs. Christianity from its founding up to 1500 had just about 13 centuries. Christianity started out as the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, from the spreading’s of Saint Paul, to Muhammad coming into mecca,…

The Byzantine Empire also known as the Eastern Roman Empire was an extension of the Roman Empire, predominantly in the East. The Byzantine Empire was originally founded as Byzantium with its capital being Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The most common language spoken in Byzantine at the time was Greek. Justinian I was born in Illyria at Tauresium, and was the nephew of Justin I, the current emperor, before Justinian took over. He was the son of a Slavic peasant, and…

Psychoanalytic criticism explores the relationship between culture and the personal identity of a character and a text. It attends to the role of the subconscious in the author, reader, and characters in a text. The concept of psychoanalytic criticism identifies the state of internal experience meaning it explores how the different states may affect the external experience either positively or negatively. In basic terms, psychoanalytic criticism is the application of the ideas of psychology to…

exceptionally through the years, this growth was so prominent that it was no longer accessible to govern all of it from the primary seat of Rome. Emperor Diocletian decided to divide the empire into halves. One half being Eastern Empire given to Byzantium and the other half being Western Empire governed from Rome. More factors that contributed to the fall of Rome decrease in agricultural production led to higher food prices. The western empire had a large trade arrangement with the eastern…

Byzantium would later be renamed In 476 A.D. when the western half finally fell, the Byzantine, or Eastern Roman Empire, rose and would continue to thrive for another 1,000 years. The Byzantine empire brought innovation in art and literature and became a trading…

The picture presented shows a marble grave stele. The object was found in Smyrna, and it dates from approximately the period between 150 BC – 100 BC . The stele belongs to the British Museum in London. The object is a grave which would have been placed in a cemetery. It as a height of 74.93 centimetres. It is made of marble, and it was created by the process of carving. This object was found in Smyrna, a place where many grave steles of this period have been discovered, and which have allowed…

mine to recount the deeds done by my father for they should certainly not be lost in silence (i).” As a politically intelligent and well-educated woman, Anna recognizes the importance of history and the magnitude of the events that transpired in Byzantium during his reign. This motivation, however, is more of a guise to her underlying motivation. Her repetitive defense of her writing gives the impression that she is trying to convince her audience,…

to and understand universal themes. Additionally, Yeats, “The Wild swans at Coole” embodies the human condition of aging integrated through the universal experience of change, allowing the audience to reflect upon themselves. Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium” develops the audience's understanding of immortality and transformation through the persona’s introspection of his temporary state within…

either human or divine and making Constantinople the second holy see, while Rome remained as previously stated, distant, different, and challenging. This latter trend was reinforced parallel to Rome’s rise after the 8th century and the decline of Byzantium and its capital Constantinople, something that in the eyes of the Popes gave them more freedom from and leverage in their differences and clashes with Byzantine…

because a general agreement among historians- in the resources I utilized- occurred around these four vital reasons that started the war. The reasons behind the timing of the First Crusades are these major points: Islamic encroachment into the Byzantium Empire, past treatment of Christians in the Middle East, Christian duty, and Islamic disunity. The primary reason that started the First Crusades was the Islamic encroachment upon the Byzantine Empire and the fear it inspired. During the…