1. In what aspects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what ways did it diverge from those patterns?…
Moscow became the Religious center for the Eastern and Russian Orthodox Churches after the fall of Constantinople in 1453.…
3. Roman Catholic Church of the West established independence from political authorities; Eastern Orthodox Church did not…
In Western Europe there were several religious changes that had to deal with the Christian church which was between the church and ruling elites, who had more power. One of the changes into religion in the time period 800s the Roman church became powerful in Western…
Innovations such as defense wall and architecture is one of the Byzantine legacy. Their religions: Orthodox Christians and Roman Catholic were deprived during the Byzantine time, which continue to spread until the present day. The culture, they kept Greek’s literature from dying out and made copies of them. Since the city of Constantinople developed as one of the largest city in Europe, so therefore, some of the Byzantine’s legacies has contributed to the development of Europe.…
The reign of Peter the Great had a great impact on the Russian Orthodox Church. Peter did not particularly like the Russian Orthodox Church, he saw the church as backwards and still using their traditions which Peter did not like. He also saw the Church as rival to his power. The patriarch’s constant ceremonial presence, pretensions to co-sovereignty, and network of subordinate bishoprics and monasteries evoked an aura of theocracy. For many years the church operated autonomously, but this changed under Peter. When the senior bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church died in 1700 Peter did not appoint a new one. In 1721 Peter replaced the patriarch with a college of the monarch’s clerical appointees dubbed the Holy Synod and assisted by Senate…
The Byzantine Empire was basically the continuation of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire after the Western side collapsed. This civilization took everything from the Roman Empire to include traditions, institutions, and even called themselves “Romans” Which was located at Constantinople.it must be noted that this Empire continued its run for about a millennium, but would fall in 1453 after Constantinople was attack by the Ottoman Empire and conquered. However, before this collapsed, one might wonder how this civilization survive for this long and what were they most important achievements? In this paper I will try my best to answer these questions and shed a brighter light on this civilization known as the “Byzantium”.…
Nevertheless, Christianity still grew and grew. The Byzantine Empire spread their culture and religion…
tried to build a more solid senate but failed to take power away from the…
Ancient Rome is recognized as being the forefront of technological innovations and efficiency improvement. The Pont du Gard aqueduct is no less than an impressive engineering feat, stretching for miles to deliver water to town centers. Roman architectural features, such as arches and domes, still remain a prominent presence in modern architecture, proving just how timeless, and more importantly, functional these inventions are. However, one notable difference between the two societies is that unlike Ancient Rome's approach to technological adoption through the appropriation of foreign territories, the United States gained its technological edge through development and research. From the invention of electricity and automobiles to computers,…
As Leon Battista Alberti once said, “Painting is possessed of divine powered, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive”. This seems to summarize the central theme of William Butler Yeats’ poem, “Sailing to Byzantium” that through human imagination, nature and its raw materials are transformed into something that will withstand the test of time. Through the use of Yeats’ clusters of images, paradoxes, and syntax, this theme of endurance over time is emphasized. Yeats additionally employs other figures of speech such as symbols and allusions to further illustrate his main theme.…
Religion is a key in the great divide in the Slavic peoples. Before Christianity each Slavic tribe had their own set of pagan gods, with the most common one being Svetovid, the god of war. Many of the Slavic tribes and cantons will not adopt Christianity until the 9th Century AD, and they would not be united by one single Christian Church. When the Great Schism occurred in 1054, the church would be spilt into the two main fragments, creating a byproduct of two branches of Christianity we know of today, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. While the Western Slavic peoples like the Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Sorbs, Moravians, Silesians, Kaszubians, Croats, and Slovenes were under the sphere of influence of the Pope and Catholic Rome, the Russian, Ukrainians, Rusyns, Belarusians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Macedonians, and Montenegrins gravitated to the Patriarch of then Orthodox Constantinople. Although these two are the main Christian religions present, Islam is also common in some Slavs. The Bosniaks, Gorani, Pomaks, and Torbesh peoples are all Muslims. Since the battle of Kosovo Polje in 1389, The Ottoman Turks had occupied the Balkans until the 20th Century. Some of the local populations like the Bosniaks and Albanians had welcomed the Turks and converted…
In W.B. Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium" the narrator is an older man looking at his life with detest as the way it appears now. He is holding resent for the way the young get to live their lives and how he lives his now. The narrator is dealing with the issue of being older and his sadness of worth in this life, and who is later able to come to terms and accept his life.…
The poem “Sailing to Byzantium”, written by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), is seemingly written about how time affects us, and how someone can become eternal to avoid its effects. As the poem was written in 1926, with Yeats at 61 years if age, the poem reflects his fears of aging and becoming obsolete, with the main theme being that of the mutual human/animal condition: We are born, we live and then we die. The narrator of this poem seeks a place where he will be able to be one with the monuments of history, so that he will live forever. The place he has chosen is Byzantium (which has subsequently been known as Constantinople, Nova Roma and currently Istanbul), because of its rich history and monuments linked to the past. The narrator hopes that by journeying to a place rich in monuments, he will escape his moral bindings and overcome the human condition.…
In 1690 the Ottoman Sultan granted to the Roman Catholic Church the dominant authority in all the churches in Nazareth, Bethlehem and Jerusalem; then in 1740 a Franco-Turkish treaty stated that Roman Catholic monks should protect the Holy Places. This was intended to ensure the safety of Christians and to enable pilgrimages to Jerusalem; furthermore, the French had asserted their right to rebuild the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem as a Catholic church. However, between 1740 and 1820 the influence of the Roman Catholic Church had been allowed to lapse by natural erosion: there were not many Roman Catholics in that part of the world and Christians tended to belong to the Eastern Orthodox Church. Consequently, protection of the Holy Places had gradually devolved to Orthodox monks. Russia represented the Orthodox Church as its protector and Czar Nicholas I seems to have thought that he had been ordained by God as the leader of the Orthodox Church and the protector of Orthodox Christians. By the 1840s, Russian pilgrims were flocking to the Holy Land, which gave the Czar the excuse to demand that the Russians should be able to provide some form of protection for his subjects there.…