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Welcome to the website of the Byzantine Studies Association of North America! Inside, find information on membership and benefits, including the annual Byzantine Studies Conference. Links will take you to information on our history, current leadership, and to our archives.
Feb 24, 2021 · American Byzantine follows the creation of a remarkable new work of art, the 38-ton marble relief, The Universal Call to Holiness. Designed by American artist…
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
May 6, 2024 · Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived for a thousand years after the western half had crumbled into various feudal kingdoms and which finally fell to Ottoman Turkish onslaughts in 1453.
Overview. Constantinople was the center of Byzantine trade and culture and was incredibly diverse. The Byzantine Empire had an important cultural legacy, both on the Orthodox Church and on the revival of Greek and Roman studies, which influenced the Renaissance.
Jul 11, 2001 · Chronicling the creation of "The Universal Call to Holiness" (the 38-ton sculptural relief that now adorns the rear wall of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.), Martin Doblmeier's American Byzantine also provides an historical overview of the Byzantine culture and art world, takes viewers inside ancient ...
The first golden age of the empire, the Early Byzantine period, extends from the founding of the new capital into the 700s. Christianity replaced the gods of antiquity as the official religion of the culturally and religiously diverse state in the late 300s ( 2006.569 ).
