Jack Goldberg was smart enough to realize that there were Albanians in the world outside Albania, and Albania might not always be a black hole, so he suggested that I find another name. The obviously more appropriate Byzantine generals then occurred to me. The main reason for writing this paper was to assign the new name to the problem.

Name. Mauri (Μαῦροι) by Strabo, who wrote in the early 1st century, as the native name, which was also adopted into Latin, while he cites the Greek name for the same people as Maurusii (Μαυρούσιοι). The name Mauri as a tribal confederation or generic ethnic designator thus seems to roughly correspond to the people known as Numidians in earlier ethnography; both terms ...

Byzantine art, architecture, paintings, and other visual arts produced in the Middle Ages in the Byzantine Empire (centred at Constantinople) and in various areas that came under its influence. The pictorial and architectural styles that characterized Byzantine art, first codified in the 6th century, persisted with remarkable homogeneity within the empire until its final dissolution with …

Byzantine mosaics are mosaics produced from the 4th to 15th centuries in and under the influence of the Byzantine Empire.Mosaics were some of the most popular and historically significant art forms produced in the empire, and they are still studied extensively by art historians. Although Byzantine mosaics evolved out of earlier Hellenistic and Roman practices …

Aug 24, 2010 · The Byzantine Empire was a vast and powerful civilization with Greek origins that can be traced to 330 A.D. ... The Goths were a nomadic Germanic people who fought against Roman rule in the late ...

LEPANTO 1571, 450 YEARS SINCE THE GREATEST VICTORY OF THE CHRISTIANS 18 September 2021 until 29 April 2022. The exhibition LEPANTO 1571, 450 YEARS SINCE THE GREATEST VICTORY OF THE CHRISTIANS is organised in the context of the anniversary programme of the Byzantine and Christian Museum "From the Fall of Constantinople to the Greek Revolution, …

Apr 13, 2018 · The Byzantine vs. The Roman Empire Christianna Otto April 13, 2018 A comparison of the Byzantine and Roman Empires at the time of their split. The Byzantine empire, which lasted roughly one thousand years (established in 330 A.D. by Constantine, conquered in 1453 by the Ottoman Turks), grew out of the previous Roman empire (which lasted roughly five hundred …

Jul 23, 2019 · Byzantine architecture and early Christian churches are often considered together. Explore the history and influences behind this medieval style. ... Justinian was a ruler of Rome, but he grew up with the people of the Eastern world. He was a Christian leader uniting two worlds; construction methods and architectural details were passed back ...

Apr 06, 2022 · Middle Byzantine (c. 843–1204) The Middle Byzantine period followed a period of crisis for the arts called the Iconoclastic Controversy, when the use of religious images was hotly contested. Iconoclasts (those who worried that the use of images was idolatrous), destroyed images, leaving few surviving images from the Early Byzantine period.

Icons. Icon of the Crucifixion, probably Constantinople or Thessaloniki, first half of 14th century, tempera and gold on wood, Athens, Byzantine and Christian Museum. Narrative details described in the Bible — the Roman soldiers, mocking priests, and two thieves crucified with Jesus — all are eliminated here to focus attention on Christ flanked by the grieving figures of pencil-thin Mary ...