Late Antiquity

Courbet and a group of painters who rejected idealization and focussed on representing everyday real life. Realism was a reaction against Romanticism - a movement which had influenced European literature and arts since the late eighteenth century. It revolted against the…

This was the case with the French in Algeria and Tunisia in the late 18th century and early in the 19th century. According to the text, “Continued rivalry between French and Italian interests culminated in a French invasion of Tunisia in May 1881. A protectorate was created in that year by the Treaty of Bardo; the Convention…

it comes to who can hold office; citizens eligible have to go through either voting councils, representatives of guilds/neighborhoods, or both. Similarly, Venice acquired representatives for stability that were admired by others. (Najemy, pg 187) Antiquity had cities claimed the right to institute their own governments and make law for themselves without authorization from a superior power. Early theorists also defended communes. These are also examples of the many forms of government and…

2.12. London Tourism London, political and economic capital of the UK, is one of the most visited cities in the world due to its special and cosmopolitan character (Stienmetz, Maxcy, & Fesenmaier, 2013). London has something like hooks and all London is fun, culture, light, and colour. London is capable of surprising both those who visit for the first time, and those who fell in love with her and cannot help but visit regularly. In the world, there is nowhere quite like London. This is not…

My visit to the Tampa Museum of Art took place on the 4th of February 2017. The Tampa Museum of Art is located at the heart of downtown Tampa and is home to some of the most widely acclaimed creative works of art in the United States. I had never been to a museum prior to my visit. My visit to the Tampa museum was very informative and a rare occasion to learn about the beauty of art. I was pretty anxious from the beginning because I didn’t know where to start, but after speaking with a security…

Solon was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. He is remebered particulary for his efforts to legislate against political, economic, and moral decline in arachaic Athens. Cleisthenes was an ancient Athenian lawgiver credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens and setting in on a deocratic footing. For these accomplisments, historians refer to him as "the father of Athenian democracy." Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire. He…

The first, and most hotly contested question, that modern scholars ask about Heinrich Schliemann’s archaeological legacy is whether or not his findings at Hisarlik and his claims about Homer’s Troy are the result of lies. On May 31st, 1873, Heinrich Schliemann wrote in his excavation journal that he had found a large cache of gold and briefly described a few of the objects. Beyond that, there was no thorough account of what Schliemann found until much later. Once Schliemann finally revealed what…

Daniel Defoe is a lesser known, but very famous, British author that deserves much more credit than he gets. Daniel Defoe was an author in England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries even though at first he did not plan to be. Daniel Defoe, over his lifetime, wrote many political articles, journals, fiction books, and nonfiction books, many of which became very famous. Defoe was one of the first British writers to ever write a novel to become as popular as Robinson Crusoe and that book…

The Middle East has always had extraordinary geostrategic importance. (74) Because it contained or bordered on the land bridges, passageways, and narrows – the Sinai Isthmus, the Caucasus, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Dardanelles, Bab el Mandeb, the Strait of Hormuz – and the sheltered seas – the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Red Sea, and the Persian/Arabian Gulf – that provided the best routes connecting the different extremities of the vast Eurasian/African continent. In…

significance of this great empire. Scholars have therefore turned to the abundance of surviving hagiographical documents such as lives of saints, passions of martyrs, collections of miracles, liturgical poetry, and translations of relics from Late Antiquity to the fall of the Eastern Empire. These accounts have been preserved in thousands of manuscripts and continue to be translated, studied, and modified by modern scholars. Not only are there so many diverse Byzantine saints’ lives produced…