Ravenna

“At the end of the 4th century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire…Here, in Ravenna…Arian Goths and Catholic Romans competed to produce an unrivaled concentration of buildings and astonishing mosaics.”https://t.co/h1DwDPz2Nm

— ShadowsOfConstantinople (@RomeInTheEast) February 2, 2024

With the Fires Raging in Greece

it may be a chastisement for the Greeks becoming neo-pagans.

…as an example because at this time we identified as Roman, not Hellenic / Greek because to be Roman was to be a man of God and to be Hellenic / Greek was to be a pagan. This continued all the way into the 1800s until around the time of the birth of modern Greece in 1821…

— Baklava Badman 🏝📿🇬🇷🇨🇴🇵🇸 🇨🇺 (@DIAS) August 8, 2021

Romanticizing the Past

Living in the imperial glories of the past...

The Department of Greek Education is proud to announce the release of a new children’s book titled “The Big Secret”
.@goarch #orthodox_times https://t.co/MEDDaCcr2h

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) July 29, 2021

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It's not every day that you see coverage of Byzantine imperial history in a local newspaper. How this was achieved, I have no idea.

That said, it's time to believe in humanity again.https://t.co/5ColqZ4qYj

— Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick (@FrAndrewSDamick) July 29, 2021

How long before Constantinople is reduced to this?

On Thursday morning, July 29, 2021, an outdoors Divine Liturgy at the ruins of the ancient Church was officiated by Archbishop Theophanes of Gerassa#orthodox_times https://t.co/ysv61nvBqv

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) July 29, 2021

Deconstructing the Byzantine Empire

In the Middle Ages, anti-blackness and transphobia existed and intersected in complex ways. Understanding how they existed in the Byzantine Empire can help us to understand the roots of these "ideologies of hatred" today, writes @ProfBetancourthttps://t.co/6RlvJA8nPQ

— madebyhistory (@madebyhistory) June 16, 2021

"Byzantines were not White in the eyes of their European neighbors, they also privileged Whiteness in their descriptions of feminine beauty" IE Slavic slave girls were popular in Constantinople. https://t.co/KUvnvDb7wj

— VDARE (@vdare) June 17, 2021

Traumatic Memory

But have the Greeks learned the right lessons after their empire fell? Or do they cling on to an imperialistic form of Christianity? Is true metanoia needed?

On May 29th, the Holy Church remembers the Fall of Constantinople, Queen of Cities

During the centuries that followed under Turkish rule, the Greeks, Bulgarians, and Serbians (and others) regarded their Orthodoxy as the expression of their spiritual and national individuality. pic.twitter.com/PYC6hhaQK5

— Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada (@GO_Metropolis) May 29, 2021

On this day May 29, 1453: The Fall of Constantinople. https://t.co/1MN93a3BXy

— Greek City Times (@greekcitytimes) May 29, 2021

"Let it be known, let it be moaned, let your heart be broken. Woe to us, alas for us: Romania has been taken"https://t.co/CGFNQox0hY

— OCN (@MyOCN) May 29, 2021

568 years have passed since the sad anniversary of the Fall of #Constantinople and the heroic fall of the #Byzantine_Empire#orthodox_timeshttps://t.co/3uwsYpIpaK

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) May 29, 2021

The Causes of the Fall of Constantinople, According to Joseph Bryennioshttps://t.co/wSRUmEVBZg pic.twitter.com/UpfiE9T4gQ

— Mystagogy Resource Center (@mystagogy1) May 29, 2021

Premiering now: “The City Lives” featuring the Voice of Greece, Glykeria, in a special musical tribute to Constantinoplehttps://t.co/iazoXOwvLv

— OCN (@MyOCN) May 30, 2021

Late Antique Glass-Making

There is a fascinating dispute about how exactly these late antique glasses (vasa diatreta) were made... and there is this wonderful Frontispiz from Otto Doppelfeld’s publication... https://t.co/AYYq74WDY2 pic.twitter.com/JTGqlVGDe5

— byzanzfreiburg (@byzanzfreiburg) May 18, 2021

Solidus of Justin I and Justinian I

https://t.co/LTmm7GyWvl

— The Byzantine Legacy (@ByzantineLegacy) January 26, 2021

This Does Cause an Eyebrow to be Raised

Sounds like the typical suspicious academic "research."

Register for our "Rethinking Byzantine Masculinities" webinar on October 30, where Derek Krueger (@UncgOf), Mark Masterson (@VicUniWgtn), Claudia Rapp (@univienna), and Shaun Tougher (@cardiffuni) will discuss articulations and performances of masculinity: https://t.co/T5jx9ql6hm

— Dumbarton Oaks (@DumbartonOaks) September 30, 2020

New Year's Eve

🇬🇧 For nature depends on man, or makes him whole, and man cannot reach perfection if he does not reflect nature and is not at work upon it.
- Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae

📷 https://t.co/HLn1NnGJae / Raluca Ene#thedayofprayerforcreation #Prayers #creation #September1st pic.twitter.com/x2S1QWCGOI

— Basilica.ro Photos (@BasilicaPhotos) August 31, 2020

Ecumenical Patriarch’s (@EcuPatriarch) message for Sept. 1: Respect for the environment is an act of doxology of God’s name.https://t.co/UIx1HL7g8A pic.twitter.com/RtWDVjyaZX

— Basilica.ro (EN) (@BasilicaNews) August 31, 2020

NEW EPISODE OF THE STEADY STATER PODCAST!

Topic: Buzzwords, Oxymorons, and Slippery Shibboleths!

"Green growth," "circular economy," "sustainability"... what do these terms and terms like them REALLY mean? Find out below 👇https://t.co/reScU2eDuJ

— CASSE (@SteadyStateEcon) August 31, 2020

"In what are called brittle environments with seasonal humidity, if plants don't get grazed properly year after year, they become stagnant and they start accumulating plant material that becomes a liability to the plant.”https://t.co/08MBE6uKk5

— Savory Institute (@SavoryInstitute) August 30, 2020

Read the latest release, “Finance for a Regenerative World: Act IV,” from Savory advisor John Fullerton of @CapInstitute. https://t.co/MygkSxVshr

— Savory Institute (@SavoryInstitute) August 29, 2020

“The surging interest in local food has been a lifeline for many. And it just might help the country make a long-term shift toward a more sustainable, more resilient and more just food system.”https://t.co/Z2XBroTVga

— Savory Institute (@SavoryInstitute) August 31, 2020

The Holy Martyr John the Warrior of Constantinople

On 12 August, the Church commemorates the Holy Martyr John the Warrior at Constantinople.#StElisabethConvent #minsk #obitelminsk #belarus #orthodox #god #faith #spirituality #stjohnthewarrior #church #praying #godbless #jesus #jesuschrist #christian pic.twitter.com/2BXYW4Bwbd

— St Elisabeth Convent. Orthodox Life And Chants (@StElisabethConv) August 12, 2020

No Empire Is Immune to Human Folly

On climate, farming, cash crops and upheaval: archaeobotany helps explain the collapse of the Byzantine Negev in the mid 6th century A.D., even at the peak of the empire. https://t.co/xOg3R4Btfg

— Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) July 28, 2020

S. Trifkovic on Hagia Sophia

Professor Srdja Trifkovic discusses the history and fate of the Hagia Sophia and Christians under Turkish rule, in the first of a three-part series on the Chronicles blog:https://t.co/M80hCMGjza

— Chronicles Magazine (@ChroniclesMag) July 20, 2020

Chronicles

Statute of Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos

Greek City Times: Statue of the last Byzantine Emperor is unveiled in Piraeus

Greek Traditional Lamentation for the Fall of Constantinople

Women in the Byzantine Empire

Ancient History Encyclopedia: Women in the Byzantine Empire by Mark Cartwright (via Tea at Trianon)

Liturgy and Byzantinization in Jerusalem

I like the spirit of the shirt

but in truth, the imperial sociopolitical structure of the Byzantines may have been a sin in itself reckoned by God against the Byzantines (in addition to all of the personal sins committed by those seeking power).

Eastern Christian Books: Beyond Boswell's Tendentious Pamphleteering

Eastern Christian Books: Beyond Boswell's Tendentious Pamphleteering

Byzantine brother-making.

Hagia Sophia

The Great Church, “a magnificent sight and for those who see it supernatural, for those who hear of it...

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Friday, January 8, 2016

Constantine VII on Cultural Homogeneity

No citation at CH though.

For each nation has different customs and divergent laws and institutions, and should consolidate those things that are proper to it, and should form and develop out of the same nation the associations for the fusion of its life. For just as each animal mates with its own tribe, so it is right that each nation should marry and cohabit not with those of other race and tongue but of the same tribe and speech. For hence arise naturally harmony of thought and intercourse among one another and friendly converse and living together; but alien customs and divergent laws are likely on the contrary to engender enmities and quarrels and hatreds and broils, which tend to beget not friendship and association but spite and division.

New Perspectives on Late Antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire
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