The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman ... of Eight Ways to Run the Country and a protodeacon of the Orthodox Church. Despite domestic and international opposition, the president ...

Eastern Orthodox churches today, to be differentiated from Roman ... became an image replicated throughout the Byzantine empire on coins, sacred vessels, icons, and objects of private prayer. The icon ...

within the Byzantine Empire." So a great wave of iconoclastic violence swept the Orthodox Church in the years following 700. The theological debates went on for well over a century, and were very ...

Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

Domicile Imperium” is a series of nine prints and drawings that imagine a world where a belief in paradox influences the art, ...

Assyrians are Christians. They belong to three main Assyrian churches: 1) The Assyrian Church of the East ("Nestorian"), established in 33 A.D. by Theodos, Thomas, and Bartholomew; 2) the Syriac ...