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- Architecture of traces and ascriptions: interpreting the vanished Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors in Constantinople
- Beneath history, memory and oblivion. Beneath memory and oblivion: life. But the writing of life is another history. Incompleteness. --Paul Ricoeur (1) This paper was prompted by the 2000 proposal to develop the site of the...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- An Ungodly War: the Sack of Constantinople and the Fourth Crusade
- By W. B. Bartlett. Phoenix Mill, U.K.: Sutton, 2000. xviii + 229 pp. $29.95 cloth. Greeks, the author of the book under review here tells the reader, are "[b]y nature a pessimistic people" (152). If one ignores statements like these, what is left is a rousing narrative of the...
- Research articles 2002-03-01
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- The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
- The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople. Jonathan Phillips. Jonathan Cape. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxvi + 374 pages. ISBN 0-224-06986-1. Mr Phillips takes a new look at the most notorious of the Crusades which was called to free Jerusalem from Mohammedan rule but which instead disobeyed the Pope and turned...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- Crusaders and historians.(Figthing For Christendom: Holy War And The Crusades )(The First Crusade: A New History )(The Fourth Crusade And The Sack Of Constantinople )(Book Review)
- THE FIRST CRUSADE: A NEW HISTORY By Thomas Asbridge Oxford University Press 408 pp. $35. THE FOURTH CRUSADE AND THE SACK OF CONSTANTINOPLE By Johnathan Phillips viking 374 pp. $29.95. FIGTHING FOR CHRISTENDOM: HOLY WAR AND THE CRUSADES By Christopher Tyerman...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Security Capital Assurance Ltd. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. I will now turn the call over to Frank Constantinople SCAs Head of Investor Relations. Frank Constantinople Thank you Melissa. In order to run the calls efficiently and productively as possible, as indicated in my opening remarks, at this point we'll now respond to questions...
- Earnings calls 2008-03-14
- Orthodox patriarch arrives in Cuba
- HAVANA AFP ? Bartholomew I, the Orthodox ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, arrived in Havana on a five-day visit, the first time a leader of the Orthodox Church has paid a visit to Latin America. Cuban President Fidel Castro welcomed the patriarch, who claims to be the spiritual leader of...
- Research articles 2004-01-21
- Orthodox patriarch dines with Castro
- HAVANA, AFP ? Bartholomew I, the visiting Orthodox ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople and spiritual leader of the 300 million strong orthodox community worldwide, met with Cuban President Fidel Castro but snubbed a US reception that included Cuban dissidents. Bartholomew I, Castro, and 23 others dined late Friday at Havana's...
- Research articles 2004-01-24
- Orthodox leader invites Pope John Paul II to Turkey
- VATICAN CITY AFP ? The Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople has invited Pope John Paul II to visit him in November at his headquarters in the Turkish city of Istanbul. "I have the impression that he will be able to come on November 30 for the feast of Saint...
- Research articles 2004-07-02
- Pope returns stolen relics to Ecumenical Orthodox Church
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Pope John Paul II returned the relics of two saints stolen during the crusades to the Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, during a mass in Rome. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the move was "not a reparation nor a way for the pope...
- Research articles 2004-11-27
- Box Clever; As the nation swots up for a new TV quiz which aims to
- WHAT'S the nine-letter word that all intelligent people spell correctly? Come on, it's not that difficult. Intelligent? (Nice try but two too many.) Wisdom? (Really, you can't count as well?) Cerebral? (Steady on, this isn't about getting into university.) Sagacious? (The figures tally, but it's way off-beam.) No? Well, the...
- Research articles 2002-05-05
- Pope says he is determined to pursue search for Christian unity
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Pope Benedict XVI said he was determined to continue the search for unity among Christians, promising that the Roman Catholic church did not seek to take over or merge with Orthodox churches. He spoke after a meeting with the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Batholomew...
- Research articles 2005-06-30
- Museum madness in Baghdad.
- The looting of the Iraq Museum Baghdad is the most severe single blow to cultural heritage in modern history, comparable to the sack of Constantinople, the burning of the library at Alexandria, the Vandal and Mogul invasions, and the ravages of the conquistadors. --The...
- Research articles 2004-03-22
- PERSONALS
- John Reardon resigns as pres.-DISH Network, EchoStar... Suzanne Bukinik promoted to vp-comedy series, ABC Entertainment... Alexandra Constantinople moves from NBC corporate communications to vp, NBC News; Maria Battaglia advanced to vp-NBC corporate communications... Sara Rutenberg, ex-Universal TV, named senior vp-business & legal affairs, Pearson TV... Russel Mayer, ex- Electrical Distribution...
- Research articles 1998-09-07
- Golden Mouth: The Story of John Chrysostom, Ascetic, Preacher, Bishop. - book reviews
- By J. N. D. Kelly. Cornell University Press, 310 pp., $4 7.50.THE AUTHOR waited for retirement from a principalship and lectureship in patristics at Oxford to revise earlier lectures on John Chrysostom. The result is a monumental achievement, which examines with fairness and thoroughness both the primary sources and continuing...
- Research articles 1995-11-22
- Golden Gate gets older date
- Most scholars assume that shortly before A.D. 413, the Byzantine emperor Theodosius II oversaw the completion of two defensive walls at Constantinople and the construction of a main entrance called the Golden Gate. An examination of the Golden Gate and adjoining wall sections now indicates that Byzantines built the gate...
- Research articles 1999-12-11
- The Curse of Euro-Nationalism: Why the U.S. should beware the EU - Industry Overview
- Istanbul The ancient city of Constantinople, whose mosques and minarets look down on the Bosporus that divides Asia from Europe and links the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, might seem an odd place from which to contemplate the new phenomenon of Euro-nationalism. Yet its long history should remind us...
- Research articles 2001-08-06
- Christianity and republicanism: from St. Cyprian to Rousseau.
- Christianity and republicanism could not be closely associated to each other since the latter emerged not necessarily in societies where Christianity proliferated. Ancient Constantinople was christianized but not republicanized. Thus, the concept of republicanism during medieval and early-modern Europe could not be accounted for the dogmas upheld by Christians although...
- Research articles 1997-09-01
- How Augustine used the trinity: Functionalism and the development of doctrine
- At various stages in the development of doctrine there emerges something new that produces a change of course and direction. Such pivotal events in doctrinal development capture the imagination and become exciting turning points in the narrative of theology. For the doctrine of the Trinity, one thinks of Athanasius, Nicea,...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- Anniversaries
- Births: Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike, actress, 1882; JackieCoogan Jack Leslie Coogan, actor, 1914. Deaths: Christian Dior, fashion designer, 1957. On this day: the United States started to blockade Cuba, 1962. Today is United Nations Day and the Feast Day of St Antony Claret, St Aretas, St Elesbaan, St Evergislus, St...
- Research articles 1997-10-24
- Byzantium: The Decline and Fall. (book reviews)
- J.J. Norwich says that he would like `to make some small amends for a centuries-old conspiracy of silence' concerning the Byzantine history (p. xxxvi). Is it really necessary, however, to lead Byzantium into the limelight? Byzantine studies have been flourishing for some considerable time; the scholarly...
- Research articles 1997-05-01
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