The group represents some of the only examples of portable panel icons to survive from before the Iconoclastic Controversy — Brooks, Sarah. Evans, J. The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire.
Westport, Conn. New York: Odyssey Press, Mainstone, Rowland J. Weitzmann, Kurt, ed. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, See on MetPublications. Visiting The Met? Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll. Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis.
Jeweled Bracelet. Flask with the Adoration of the Magi. Panel of a Diptych Announcing the Consulship of Justinian. Justinian rebuilt the Hagia Sophia, which, after the rebuilding, had the largest dome in the world. The building is still standing today, although it is now a mosque, since the conquering Ottoman Turks were Muslim.
The Hagia Sophia, rebuilt, with its grand dome, by Justinian, whom you can see with Theodora in the insert. Here is the melody of the song "Norwegian Wood," the lyrics describe the life of Empress Theodora. Amy Burvall, and Herb Mahelona, are two teachers from Hawaii who create short videos to help their students remember highlights of history topics.
Disclaimer: By clicking on any links the user is leaving the Penfield School District website, the district is not responsible for any information associated with these links, including any pop-up ads. The type of Christianity practiced in Byzantium was called Eastern Orthodox. Eastern Orthodox Christianity is still practiced today. There were also men called bishops in the major cities of the Empire. In the Byzantine Empire, emperors had power over the church, because they selected the patriarch.
Even though Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic are both Christian, they had arguments and even battles against each other.
The pope, the spiritual leader in Rome and the Catholics in the West, and the patriarch of Constantinople did not always agree.
The Byzantine emperor was never totally safe. Unlike the barbarian kingdoms of the west, where the throne was passed from father to son, there was never a clear line of succession in the East. This was called the " Malady of the Purple," because any one with power could seize the throne in the Byzantine Empire. There were always plots to overthrow the emperor and much political intrigue in Constantinople, even among family and relatives.
In the Byzantines rolled out a new weapon called Greek Fire. This fire was thrown at the enemy and could not be extinguished , not even by water. The person who is given credit for the invention of Greek Fire is Kallinikos, a Syrian living in the Byzantine Empire. Greek Fire was used against the attacking Muslim fleets. The formula for Greek Fire was a secret, and perhaps even the emperors did not know its ingredients.
Greek fire was thrown in glass containers and propelled by a pump. Greek Fire has been lost to history, and no one is absolutely sure how to make it today. Greek Fire helped to save the Byzantine Empire and Christianity for several hundred years. Constantinople finally fell to the cannons of the Turks in The walls of Constantinople fell down, but the culture and ideas of the Byzantine Empire moved to the Christian West, creating a new interest in classic Greek and Roman ideas, called the Renaissance.
Greek Fire, sometimes called Roman Fire, is being thrown at enemy ships in this Middle Ages manuscript. In the next chapter we will read about Islam and its founder Muhammad, a religion and empire that came in conflict with the Byzantines in the East and the barbarian kingdoms in the West.
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