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The letters of Manuel II Palaeologus
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So what's so significant about the Byzantine Empire? Now recognised as having had a considerable influence on the Renaissance and a significant impact in the shaping modern Europe, modern historians are also increasingly acknowledging the role of the Byzantine Empire in the deve…
'It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind, ' recorded Edward Gibbon wi…
"For many of us, Byzantium remains "byzantine"--obscure, marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of some recent historians, prejudices still deform popular and scholarly understanding of the Byzantine civilization, often reducing it to a poor relation of Rome and the rest of th…
