Byzantine Empire

leaf of a diptych, carve in the early sixth century from Byzantine period. This very precious right leaf of diptych depicted Saint Michael the Archangel has been considered to be one of the most greatest surviving Byzantine ivory panel. And Hagia Sophia is the patron of this very exceptional beautiful ivory panel. The purpose of this beautiful vory panel is made for commemorating the meeting in Constantinople to restore the power of Roman empire, and make the western and eastern to be unified.…

Christian concept took root and grew into Holy War. Even with the close measures of the Islamic Kingdoms, Byzantine Christians, never found value in waging or condoning war. Within a century of Constantine I’s rule, “[c]hristians in government found themselves faced with questions of life and death, war and peace” (Madden 2). But unlike Constantinople, the clergy of the Western roman empire, used the appeal of defending the birthplace of christianity; as a means to solicit large sums of…

Chartes was a crusader himself. This one speech, whether or not it was an accurate recording of what Pope Urban II actually said, was one driving force behind the First Crusade. This First Crusade was, at least officially, an effort to help the Byzantine Empire to reclaim the Holy City of Jerusalem from the Ottoman Turks. In addition, this speech led to other…

took place in 1189-1192. The location was mostly Levant and Anatolia. Levant and Anatolia are right by the Mediterranean Sea. Austria’s allies were the Kingdom of Jerusalem, England, France, and the Holy Roman Empire. Their enemies were the Ayyubids, Zengids, Seljuk Empire, Byzantine Empire, and the Kingdom of Sicily. The Third Crusade was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin. The Crusades were a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims. King…

the by silk road. The Black Death comes from the saliva fleas, and is spread when the flea bite an organism. Fleas were repelled by the smell of horse, by would travel on bags of grain, or on the clothes of humans. The plague reached Asia, Byzantine Empire, Turkish kingdoms, France, North Africa, and of Greece and Italy were affect. As this disease spread, people abandoned their belongings, and tried to run from the disease. The people most affected lived on the trade route. The Black…

Seljuk Turks wanted to overtake Islamic regions and regions that did not follow Islam, but they focused more on taking power from other Muslims and not from the “West,” or Christendom. The Turks did attack Byzantium, which was already weak, so the empire had to rely on European troops for military support. When the emperor sent this plea to Pope Urban II, he reworded it to make it seem like a war to take back a Christian region, which created a misinterpreted call to war. Despite past tensions,…

While Christianity solely focus on the belief in one God and the blessings he gives us for complying to a set of mandates, Buddhism revolves around no belief in a higher power that is a divine entity, but rather reaching a higher self by following a path meant to lead them to enlightenment. Followers of the Christian religion take forth a big leap of faith and they mold their lives according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Buddhism holds the pathway Prince Siddhartha, or…

Comparing and Contrasting the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance During the Renaissance many of the artistic and governmental styles that we use today were developed and some of the greatest artists and thinkers that have lived were born like Shakespeare the playwright and poet. But the gap between the development of ancient-classical Greece and Rome and the High Italian Renaissance is a big one. There had to be something in the middle to bridge that gap, and there was; the Middle…

judgement day, while Orthodoxy did not believe in purgatory at all—they believed that all souls went directly to hell after death until their judgement day. England adopted their religion from Rome, while Russia adopted their religion from the Byzantine Empire. Russia and England were also different artistically. They had very different artistic styles. In the East, their style was two-dimensional, and not at all personal. Everything was extremely spiritual and far away feeling. On the contrary,…

Pope Urban II had witnessed the success that the Islamic faith had been having utilizing conquest through faith, and he also thought this could give him a new method to spread Christianity and the possibility to retake control of the Eastern Byzantine Empire. Pope Urban II was able to unite a large number of fighters using his power as a prominent religious figure who assured the volunteers that God would forgive their sins in return for their willingness to fight for the church to regain the…