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Re: Constantinople's walls: lack of systematicarchaeological work & linguistic barrier twixt local scholars & international scholarly community makes the situation complicated. The farce climaxes in the fact the Byzantine names

Re: A. Kaldellis and Romanland (2019). First, I love this book. He is one of my fave academix. And It retired so many dull tropes about only the tyranny of

MELKITES – A Thread By C10th, the Arabic language had supplanted both Aramaic – then the lingua franca of the Near East – and Greek, the tongue of poleis (esp

THREAD on Erdy, Turkey & Hagia Sophia Turkey has turned into a pirate state with "soft" Islamist ideology. FP has gone from zero problems to zero friends in one decade.

The identity of West hinges on literary productions of Ennodius. In him we see a Latin go from mocking Germanics & loving Eastern Romans to vice versa. His fave intellectual

Hugely frustrating to have to deal with these "what about Greek temples -> churches" accounts. Let's quickly explain the giant hiatus you've inserted into history. Greek East (Classical/Byzantine) found its

The six historical walls of Florence. The ancient Roman city was founded c.60 B.C between Piazza del Duomo & Piazza Santa Trinita. Its centre was in Piazza della Repubblica, at

So countless were the Ahmet son of Mehmets & Mehmet son of Ahmets when the first Turkish consensus was produced that a decree was issued forcing Turks to find themselves

Byz Moral Revolution: A ThreadWhereas talk of “social justice” (often structural in nature) is perennial in modernity, the main achievement in the ancient world was happiness. Major factors in defining

The ninth-century Persian historian Al-Baladhuri tells us that when Alexandria fell to the Arabs in AD 642, “some of the Greek inhabitants left to join the Greeks somewhere else.” This “somewhere else” was

The Hodoeporicon of Willibald:The Englishman who Lived For Two Years in C8th Constantinople #Byzantium #England It's nt written by Willibald himself (WHO'S A SAINT BTW). Author remained anon for long