Unboxing the paperback of Belisarius & Antonina! On sale now. Particularly proud of this one because it's my first book ever to come out as a paperback. 🥹
28.05.2025 14:55 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Today we remember the fall of Constantinople!
New Rome, the city of Constantine, the Queen of Cities. It was the center of an ancient civilization, not just a capital. It was a center point and beacon of the Roman world.
On May 29, 1453 it fell, conquered by the Turks!
29.05.2025 14:18 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Today we remember the fall of Constantinople!
New Rome, the city of Constantine, the Queen of Cities. It was the center of an ancient civilization, not just a capital. It was a center point and beacon of the Roman world.
On May 29, 1453 it fell, conquered by the Turks!
29.05.2025 14:18 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
On MAY 11, 330AD the world changed!
Constantine the Great re-founded the city of Byzantion, transforming it into a new imperial capital.
Over time Constantinople blossomed into a grand city truly worthy of the title New Rome, eventually becoming the center of the Roman world!
11.05.2025 13:18 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
On MAY 11, 330AD the world changed!
Constantine the Great re-founded the city of Byzantion, transforming it into a new imperial capital.
Over time Constantinople blossomed into a grand city truly worthy of the title New Rome, eventually becoming the center of the Roman world!
11.05.2025 13:18 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Memory Medieval
Medieval Tragedy, The Fourth Crusade GIGA-EPISODE! JFT Ep10 w/ Shadows of Constantinople
I discussed the Fourth Crusade on my FIRST ever PODCAST appearance!
We talked about the long path to 1204, the context, what led to it.
To hear our conversation, please check out the episode! (Links to Spotify and Apple below)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foei...
05.05.2025 02:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In reality, exactly the same thing would have happened!
The same exact Old World diseases would have spread among the natives. The Ottomans also viewed land ownership and usage the same way Europeans did, so the same settler conflict with the natives would have been inevitable!
21.04.2025 15:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Today is Easter.
During the medieval period in Constantinople, the Hagia Sophia would have been a spectacle of piety at Easter!
Relics of the Passion were venerated there during Easter week. There were imperial processions to the Hagia Sophia.
Imagine that?
20.04.2025 18:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Those poor old walls of Constantinople…
It’s bricks receding like an old man’s hairline…
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Those poor old walls of Constantinople…
It’s bricks receding like an old man’s hairline…
19.04.2025 20:22 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Why did medieval people value history?
“History is agreed to be as profitable as the other useful things in life, inasmuch as it brings mortal affairs back to life or gives them youthful vigor, and does not allow them to be swept away and concealed in the depths of oblivion.”
16.04.2025 13:03 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Why did medieval people value history?
“History is agreed to be as profitable as the other useful things in life, inasmuch as it brings mortal affairs back to life or gives them youthful vigor, and does not allow them to be swept away and concealed in the depths of oblivion.”
16.04.2025 13:03 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
OTD: April 15, 1071 The fall of Bari to the Normans under Robert Guiscard, which marked the end of Roman territory in Italy.
It was significant, as it opened up the Balkans to future Norman invasion just as Anatolia was invaded by the Turks. This hindered the imperial response.
15.04.2025 19:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
OTD: April 15, 1071 The fall of Bari to the Normans under Robert Guiscard, which marked the end of Roman territory in Italy.
It was significant, as it opened up the Balkans to future Norman invasion just as Anatolia was invaded by the Turks. This hindered the imperial response.
15.04.2025 19:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
At St. Marks’s Basilica in Venice there is a porphyry statue of the Four Tetrarchs looted from Constantinople in 1204, surrounded by marble spolia.
There is a white fragment on the bottom right of the purple statue, a piece of which was found in Istanbul in the 20th century!
14.04.2025 17:54 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
A “Byzantine” style depiction of Aragorn from Lord of the Rings.
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OTD: April 13, 1204
The Fourth Crusade begins a comprehensive and ruthless sack of Constantinople, irreparably shattering though not ending the Eastern Roman Empire.
Constantinople would never be the same again, the last beacon of antiquity was extinguished.
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It’s very similar, keep the essence of the original, I call that faithful.
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The Basileus Constantine XI Dragases Palaiologos
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Agreed!
09.04.2025 03:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An incredible portrait of the last ever Roman Emperor (1449-1453), Constantine XI Palaiologos, was recently found at the Monastery of Taxiarches of Aigialeia in Greece.
We now have a glimpse of his possible appearance, and here is a faithful AI reconstruction to help us imagine!
08.04.2025 14:54 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
An incredible portrait of the last ever Roman Emperor (1449-1453), Constantine XI Palaiologos, was recently found at the Monastery of Taxiarches of Aigialeia in Greece.
We now have a glimpse of his possible appearance, and here is a faithful AI reconstruction to help us imagine!
08.04.2025 14:54 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
An anonymous Western source from 1437 observed that the Emperor in Constantinople governed “a territory that could be crossed in eight days by horse, and in barely two days in its width, but when they are at war they control only the coastal forts.”
Essentially a city-state!
04.02.2025 01:32 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Eastern Roman history is like a buried treasure, when discovered it is so easy to become enthralled and absorbed.
But it’s also easy to just pass by it without paying it much attention!
28.03.2025 18:33 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Eastern Roman history is like a buried treasure, when discovered it is so easy to become enthralled and absorbed.
But it’s also easy to just pass by it without paying it much attention!
28.03.2025 18:33 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“The Byzantine Empire was the medieval heir of Ancient Greece and Rome, the continuation of the Roman Empire in Greek territory…the story of Byzantium is a real-life adventure of electrifying ideas, high drama, colorful characters, and inspiring feats of daring.” -Colin Wells, Sailing From Byzantium
23.12.2023 18:53 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The last chariot race held in the Hippodrome of Constantinople occurred in 1200AD….the ancient tradition had died long ago in the rest of the Roman world which once spanned the entire Mediterranean.
21.01.2024 18:19 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Gondor in Lord of the Rings is based on the medieval Roman Empire & Constantinople.
Tolkien wrote in Letter 131:
“In the south Gondor rises to a peak of power, almost reflecting Númenor, and then fades slowly to decayed Middle Age, a kind of proud, venerable, but increasingly impotent Byzantium”
24.01.2025 19:44 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
I've been curating classics social media since the 1990s and still feel a need to do it!
Classics /Ancient World feed:
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International Relations and History 📚 • Founder of The World in Maps • Here, I post maps and graphs about how the world works and how it once was 🌍📊
History, literature, art history, philosophy, cultural heritage, museum studies, languages, and much more at CEU! A global department with students and faculty from more than 30 countries: https://historicalstudies.ceu.edu/
After surviving exposure at birth, these unconventional academics realised they were destined to found the greatest Ancient Roman History podcast! 🏛📯⚔️
📘‘Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire’ is out now! https://linktr.ee/ThePartialHistorians
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Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Global history (Medieval)
Speaker • Writer • Reviewer • Editor ✝️
University webpage: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/nicholas-morton
Historian, Writer, Geek, Felinophile. Questioning everything.
Professor @ Providence College specializing in Early Christianity and Chair of the Jewish-Catholic Theological Exchange Committee | President, catacombsociety.bsky.social
Viaggia is not my name. It's what I do. #VirtualTravel for now.
and another thing: im not jetlagged. please dont put in the newspaper that i got jetlagged.
Associate Professor in History @uninorthampton.bsky.social, Departmental Tutor @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Current research interests: late medieval family, gender, literary culture; medievalism and the extreme right.
PhD Princeton. The logic and logistics of empire. Foreign affairs, information security, and digital spatial history. Byzantium, sometimes the Komnenoi. British Academy International Postdoctoral Fellow @ University of Exeter. 🇨🇦
Scribbler. Working on Prosopography in the 3rd Century Roman Empire. Late Roman Empire/Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages enjoyer. North Carolina expat in California. Appalachian and old man undergrad.
He/Him. Former Medievalist. I research Byzantine and English treaties in the Middle Ages when I can, and enjoy dogs and surfing when I can't.
Wargamer for far too long. Late Antiquity, Wars of the Roses, Muslim armies and Chinese mainly. Currently playing a lot of MeG. Also WotR reenactor and LRPer.
Blog - https://gamer-at-the-end-of-time.blogspot.com/
Art Historian - National Research Council (CNR)
Especially interested in early Christian and Byzantine religious iconography, history of art history, fakes and forgeries, Orientalism in modern art.
Currently writing a book on idols in Byzantine art
I write history. Last book: LORDS OF THE DESERT; before that: A LINE IN THE SAND. Next book: THE ARENA.
More at/contact me via https://www.historythatmatters.org
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Currently reading Jason Burke's The Revolutionists
Avid reader, history aficionado, tech-nerd, knowledge seeker, book lover, researcher & learner. Photography enthusiast. Very outspoken and zero tolerance for bullshit.
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Art Historian, Fantasy Author. Reader at Bourbon Penn. Debut Novel WINTER HARVEST OUT NOW!
