Ravenna is on Italy’s tourist map for ... the East, Justinian, bringing order and stability – and an appreciation for mosaic ...
The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a ... The one exception in the empire’s thousand years was the Nika revolt of 532, when Justinian the Great, at the urging of Empress Theodora, sent ...
A mosaic depicting the Byzantine ... by Justinian I, the great Byzantine emperor known as the “Last Roman,” whose name is synonymous with a resurgence in the fortunes of the Roman Empire ...
Women played diverse and influential roles in the Byzantine Empire that extended far beyond the domestic affairs of each family.