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Category Archives: Byzantine Events
Hellenic-American Cultural Foundation’s Online Seminar on Byzantium
Well. We missed this as there was no real marketing beforehand. However, the news report makes some interesting points. If the lecture recording is posted online I shall make you all aware. First published in The National Herald. The Hellenic-American … Continue reading
Two Collections Meet – Museum of Byzantine Culture Thessaloniki – to September 30 2020
The Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki presents an exhibition comprising icons, vestments and precious heirlooms on loan from the northern port city’s Municipal Art Gallery. The items are shown alongside texts which present and explain the most recent findings … Continue reading
Event – Images of Byzantium: Don’t miss the stunning gilded iconography at Monkton Arts IoW
This will be targeted at a very tiny numbers of readers in England, but as I can see the Isle of Wight from one of my favourite walks, I thought I would highlight this exhibition. This exhibition and illustrated talk … Continue reading
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Event – Building God’s Empire: Archaeology, religion and the Byzantine conquest of Africa
This looks like an interesting event to attend for those who can make it. The combination of Justinian, Belisarius, and the idea of rebuilding the western Roman empire is an intoxicating mix, and a great story. To be held at … Continue reading
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Late Antique and Byzantine Studies seminars at King’s College London
The seminar series continues at King’s College this Spring. Attendance is free to all. Tuesday 7 February, 17.30 Niels Gaul (Edinburgh) The Byzantium that could have been? Learning and the transmission of classical texts around the year 800 SW1.09, Somerset … Continue reading
The 26th annual Runciman lecture: Greece in the Balkans: A Cohabitation of Past, Present and Future – 2 February
Throughout the last two centuries of Balkan history, national identities have been transformed, political cohesion of nation states has given way to segmentation and pre-modern creeds have existed next to modernist ideas. Location: King’s College, Great Hall, King’s Building, Strand … Continue reading
Exhibition – Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity
This decorative panel from a tunic was woven in around the year 500 AD, in Egypt when it was part of the flourishing Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire. The panel is in the wondrous little show called “Designing Identity: The … Continue reading
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Sicily culture and conquest – exhibition at the British Museum
Sicily fills the mind with vivid images: Al Pacino on a dusty hillside, shotgun over his shoulder, in “The Godfather”, or Burt Lancaster, “The Leopard” himself, pronouncing “Everything must change so that everything can stay the same.” But things have … Continue reading
Exhibition of monoprint photographs based on Byzantine structures
Wonderful to be contacted by Joelle Imamoglu about an upcoming exhibition of monoprint photographs based on Byzantine structures to be held at Khas Gallery, Istanbul, between January 7th and March 4th. The photographer is Erhun Serbetci, the exhibition is curated … Continue reading
Getty Villa Moves ‘Heaven and Earth’ for Byzantine Art Exhibition
The Getty Villa in Los Angeles presents Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections from April 9 through August 25, 2014. This major loan exhibition surveys the artistic, spiritual and cultural splendor of the Byzantine Empire. By … Continue reading
Irony And Humor In The Semantically Subversive Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire arose after the death of the Roman Emperor Constantine. To make the empire more manageable, it was split into eastern and western halves, with Rome as the seat of the west and Constantinople as the capitol of … Continue reading
Read Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century online
Laura Diaz-Arnesto, who is the author of some of the most popular blog articles (see below) got in touch to tell me that the Metropolitan Museum of Art has made available the complete book – Age of Spirituality: Late Antique … Continue reading
22nd Annual Runciman Lecture – Constantinople: the medieval Muslim perspective (7 February)
The 22nd Annual Runciman Lecture will be given by Professor Carole Hillenbrand, OBE, FBA, FRSE, FR HIst.Soc. It will take place as usual in the Great Hall King’s Building Strand Campus on 7 February 2013 with a 6.00 pm start. … Continue reading
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