"Learning far more about Byzantines than I wanted" Topic
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Wyatt the Odd  | 23 Aug 2009 9:16 p.m. PST |
My son – your future world overlord, yada yada yada – has a paper to complete before school starts. He has entitled it, "Political and Social Change Under Justinian & Constantine." Aside from it being a quite mouthful, it pretty involved. He found a lecture series online that was very informative (to me, at least) by Lars Brownworth: 12byzantinerulers.com So far, I haven't felt the need to paint up one of Belisarius' armies. That Theodora, however… What a witch! Wyatt |
| Mapleleaf | 23 Aug 2009 9:43 p.m. PST |
One thing your son will learn is why the term "byzantine" is used to describe complicated or involved political situations. |
| Wyatt the Odd | 24 Aug 2009 5:46 a.m. PST |
Oh, he knew that at an early age. I introduced him to Byzantine chess at about age 9. (it's played on a circular board). Wyatt |
| aercdr | 24 Aug 2009 10:40 a.m. PST |
Learning far more about Byzantines than I wanted…. Hmmm, how could you ever learn enough about Byzantines? |
| bilsonius | 24 Aug 2009 7:33 p.m. PST |
I like the bit in the intro to John Julius Norwich's 'Byzantium', where he quotes a 19th-century author's description of the history of the Empire as a "monotonous story of the intrigues of priests, eunuchs and women, of poisonings, of conspiracies, of uniform ingratitude, of perpetual fratricides", and comments that, contrary to the writer's intention, he makes it sound "not so much monotonous as distinctly entertaining." |
| Quadratus | 28 Aug 2009 2:56 a.m. PST |
thanks for the link I look forward to listening to it. |
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