How To Use Byzantium In A Sentence
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Under the pontificate of his former pupil Paul II (1464-1471), he returned to Rome and was appointed a papal abbreviator, but became involved in fresh quarrels in 1465 he visited Crete and Byzantium, and then returned to Rome, where he wrote the account of the martyrdom of Bl. Andrew of Chios
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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In the years after 1204, a vast number of Byzantium artifacts, silks, ivories, enamels and jewels found their way into western cathedral treasuries.
The Glories of Byzantium
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Some are encrusted with costume jewelry, evoking the roughly bejeweled icons of Byzantium.
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Byzantium, Gaeta had then, like Naples and Amalfi, a republican form of government under a "dux" or lord.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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If the bold scheme could be carried through there would again be a Roman emperor in the West, Latin Christianity would stand strong and unified against schismatic Byzantium and threatening Saracens, and, by the awe and magic of the imperial name, barbarized Europe might reach back across centuries of darkness, and inherit and Christianize the civilization and culture of the ancient world.
Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814
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Clinton-Baddeley read ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ as emended and with interpretive notes by Yeats:
Later Articles and Reviews
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Archelaus was also sent, a man of patrician standing who had already been pretorian prefect both in Byzantium and in Illyricum, but he then held the position of prefect of the army; for thus the officer charged with the maintenance of the army is designated.
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War
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After the victory over the Persians in 479 B. C. the Greeks offered this tripod at the oracle of Delphi, from where it was brought to Byzantium.
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The sun of the Roman Empire set, so to speak, in the East, and it is to Byzantium we must turn our eyes for the continuation of the art of horsemanship as of the Fine Arts.
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Conversely, he does not believe that modern ideologies such as Marxism, post-structuralism, and nationalism are useful tools for the historian of Byzantium.
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Byzantium continued to flourish for yet another millennium.
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Byzantium certainly has its brutal and barbarous moments.
Times, Sunday Times
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Penniless, Theodora became a child comic actor and prostitute in Byzantium with a racy repertoire of sexy acts (at least according to the rather hostile historian of the period, Procopius) before marrying the future emperor, Justinian.
Stella Duffy rides Theodora to victory at Cheltenham
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The day was rough by normal standards, that is, the standards of an average Roman citizen who live in Byzantium.
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Europam Asiamque divortio Byzantium in extrema Europa posuere
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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In kabuki, even if you speak the native language well there is a lot of loud disharmonic music, the Shakespearean Japanese is indecipherable, and the plot line would make all the bureaucrats in Byzantium wince.
Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Who’s Laughing Now
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There is, however, a Byzantium illustration depicting what appears to be a fishing rod or pole.
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And I would say that the British pound "knit" the world economy together long before the birth of Ben Bernanke, while the golden solidus of ancient Byzantium circulated as global money ages before the reign of Queen Victoria.
How the Dollar Rules by Fiat
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Thasos passed measures to prevent wine-shops becoming bars, while the fact that taverns were so popular in Byzantium and Athens revealed the essentially vulgar character of democratic societies.
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Clearchus, a Lacedaemonian, and formerly harmost of Byzantium, who had been condemned to death by the Spartan authorities for disobedience to their orders.
A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest
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There were many famous cloisters in Byzantium where such women placed themselves at the service of society as a whole.
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[from the section on Constaninople] Constantinople, called bythe Turks Stamboul or Istamboul, was originally called Byzantium ....
"Milan," "Rome," and "Constantinople" ; excerpts from Appleton's European Guide Book for English-Speaking Travellers, Part II
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Byzantium certainly has its brutal and barbarous moments.
Times, Sunday Times
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The difference between Rome and Persia (and later between Byzantium and Persia) was the difference between semi-Western imperial officialdoms that were nonhereditary, and thus early prototypes of modern states, and a Persian society underpinned by tribal and clan relations.
Where Europe Vanishes
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The Palaeologi reigned in ghostly supremacy over the shreds and tatters of Byzantium until the Turks seized Constantinople in 1453.
Superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism
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In 988 the principalities of Kievan Rus '(the predecessor of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus) accepted Christianity from the Byzantine Greeks, rather than from the Romans — a matter of no small import, given that Byzantium was moribund, its religion having suffocated the intellectual traditions of the Hellenes.
Russia Is Finished
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In the last third of the seventh century, when Byzantium definitively lost its African possessions, ceramics and amphorae from the Aegean and from the east become predominant.
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Miniature mosaic icons, as suggested by preserved examples, were produced for a very limited time in Byzantium and were highly prized.
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Or book a table at Byzantium, a stylishly bohemian room with wood vigas overhead.
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He also initiated trade between the Franks and the Muslims and made commercial pacts with the merchants of Venice who traded with both Byzantium and Islam.
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The first major show of its kind in the U.S., jointly organized by the Walters, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the British Museum, it assembles a fascinating array of objects tracing the evolution and permutations of reliquaries from late antiquity to the Renaissance, via Byzantium, plus a section on postmedieval versions of the impulse to preserve and venerate.
Where Revered Relics Repose
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This would continue for some time in Byzantium and in Scandinavia, in polities of strong public power or weak aristocracies.
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Indeed, after the fall of Byzantium, the Hagia Sophia was converted into an Ottoman mosque. Today, the monument is a museum serving both Christians and Muslims.
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The seraglio is a vast inclosure, occupying nearly the entire site of the ancient city of Byzantium, and embracing a circumference of five miles.
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
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There was a second renewal of interest in Byzantium in the eighth century.
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He is a fine late Romanesque painter open to more modern influences, particularly those emanating from Byzantium, perhaps via Franciscan illuminated manuscripts.
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All the glories of Byzantium seemed to billow from the folds of her long silk stole, which, when she was presenting the Poetry prize to John Haynes, fell from her shoulders like a stream of molten gold.
The Costa low-down, what you really need to know
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Since 2003, when the first of his color reconstructions went on display in Munich, the slowly growing collection -- some two-dozen pieces now -- has traveled widely, not only to such postclassical Northern cities as Copenhagen, Basel and Amsterdam but also to the ancient capitals Rome, Athens and Byzantium (Istanbul to you).
Setting the Record Straight
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But from 1300, the frontier emirate of Anatolia began slowly to eat into Byzantine territory, and in 1453 old dreams were realised and the ancient city of Byzantium acquired its present name: Istanbul.
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Shortly after that I coauthored an update for a guidebook to Phoenix, and that same year got a contract with Hippocrene Books to write Byzantium: An Illustrated History.
Terrific Tuesday with Sean McLachlan:)
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Keen to echo J F Bentley's vision, Thomas Wilson, the Cathedral precentor, sought Byzantium with a twist.
Update on Some Liturgical Details for the Installation of Archbishop Vincent Nichols
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In Africa the last flood of Germanic invasions spent itself within hearing of the last gasp of Byzantium, and it was through Africa that Islam came to play its great rôle of conqueror and civilizer.
DARKWATER
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In the Byzantium of the 900s, the Varangian guard was made up wholly of Scandinavian mercenaries.
Geography Is Destiny
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He then shifts to the use of gold in Greece, Rome, and Byzantium, initially as adornment but later as a medium of exchange.
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In the seventh century, they joined with invading Bulgars to gain control of a sizable territory, which they defended against Byzantium in 681, gaining recognition as the first Bulgarian state.
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In her article on the last days of Byzantium, Judith Herrin emphasises just how noisy they were, with drums and trumpets and church bells sounding over the roar of cannon and the clash of steel.
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Greek, variously influenced from Athens on one side, Byzantium on the other: then, across the Ægean, you have the great country absurdly called Asia Minor, (for we might just as well call Greece, Europe Minor, or Cornwall, England Minor,) but which is properly to be remembered as
Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
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Through my policy, which he arraigns, instead of the Thebans invading this country with Philip, as all expected, they joined our ranks and prevented him; instead of the war being in Attica, it took place seven hundred furlongs from the city on the confines of Botia; instead of corsair issuing from Euba to plunder us, Attica was in peace on the coast-side during the whole war; instead of Philip being master of the Hellespont by taking Byzantium, the Byzantines were our auxiliaries against him Does this computation of services, think you, resemble the casting of accounts?
III. On the Crown
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Byzantium stands as an important symbol in the poems of Yeats.
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The argenteria was then replaced by the bancus, a raised surface that resembled the worktable used by money changers in Greek-speaking Byzantium.
The English Is Coming!
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Another moment, and the obstacle had become very real; it grew to vastness, to insuperability He stood, as it were, looking into the very eyes of the Serene Majesty of Byzantium.
Veranilda
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Outstanding Italian humanists of that epoch visited Byzantium in order to learn Greek and to buy old manuscripts, saved from pillages, conflagrations, and devastation of the invaded country.
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In Kiev, far from the reach of Byzantium, the regent Olga laid the foundation for the future Russian Empire in 957 when she converted to the Orthodox Church.
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The refugees from Byzantium carried with them a wealth of books - just in time for them to be printed and disseminated throughout western Europe.
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Some are encrusted with costume jewelry, evoking the roughly bejeweled icons of Byzantium.
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Byzantium certainly has its brutal and barbarous moments.
Times, Sunday Times
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Life of the Emperor who saved Byzantium from the Persians but could not fend off the Moslem advance.
A Whimper It Is
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Very often, when the coly-mackerel and the mackerel are met by a south wind in their exit, there are better catches to the southward than in the neighbourhood of Byzantium.
The History of Animals
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In Byzantium, tenant smallholdings quickly became the most widespread mode of cultivation, with the decrease in the number of large estates and a near total eclipse of farming by the owners until the eleventh century.
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All will be set right in a footnote, though you may forget about the scholarship while reading of how the former "showgirl," Empress Theodora of Byzantium, "was said to be a gymnastically gifted orgiast whose specialty was to offer all three orifices to her clients simultaneously.
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Having disposed of the tyrant, Heraclius recaptured Byzantium's lost eastern provinces in a brilliant military campaign against the Persians.
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Vikings (which then meant pirates not the Norse) did not just raid Northern Europe, they settled in the mediterranean, brought to Northern Europe dragonhead symbolism (purportedly from the Sythians around 5th C),rediscovered and settled in Greenland and North America, gave Russia its name (debatedly), and served in the Varangian guard (Byzantium) as mercenaries.
Why Fantasy?
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Besieged and expelled from Byzantium by the Athenians, he did not return to Sparta; but news came that he had settled at Colonae in the Troad, and was intriguing with the barbarians, and that his stay there was for no good purpose; and the ephors, now no longer hesitating, sent him a herald and a scytale with orders to accompany the herald or be declared a public enemy.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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The reasons that Rose introduced Christianity Byzantium as the state religion mainly have three respects.
