It didn’t occur to me until I came across this blog post over on the dependable Mybyzantine blog, that I had never read any Turkish historian’s account of anything about either the Ottoman or the Byzantine Empires. Proverbs6to10 has now put this right by posting an article from GÖKNUR AKÇADAĞ.  I have to be honest

With almost no cinema distribution and with the sales of the DVD virtually non-existent, Agora will probably vanish almost without a trace, not unlike its main character. The life of an historical figure few have heard of seems not to be a commercial proposition even when it gets generally good reviews on film buff blogs. 

Byzantine fashion is a coming trend….. The fashion world has latched onto the sumptious and sensuous world of Byzantine dress and art.

Portrait of Hypatia (thanks to Wikipedia) Whatever you think about Christianity, the unpalatable fact is it owed its rise to coercion, violence and a huge amount of bloodshed. The scale of persecution of Christians by the pagan empire was tiny compared to the death toll once the Church became established.  The majority of the bloodshed

Beyond the frontiers, his anxious view could discover nothing, except the ocean, inhospitable deserts, hostile tribes of barbarians, of fierce manners and unknown language, or dependent kings, who would gladly purchase the emperor’s protection by the sacrifice of an obnoxious fugitive. “Wherever you are,” said Cicero to the exiled Marcellus, “remember that you are equally

Are man’s activities altering the climate? Despite having an environmental science degree and a deep interest in environmental issues, bizarrely enough I have never really got around to forming an opinion on the matter. It is certainly true that the consensus among scientists is that man made climate change is a fact and that we