ALL ABOUT HISTORY – Issue 34
The second part that completes the
collector's item
in the Byzantine Empire!
Its issue #34 All About History, completes the unique tribute to Byzantium, exploring the beginnings of the empire, but also how it evolved into a beacon of stability, even when surrounded by kingdoms in chaos.
Find out how and why Istanbul became the richest city in the world. Explore the minds of Byzantium's greatest thinkers, before discovering why Orthodox Christianity was adopted throughout the Byzantine Empire.
If the first part of the dedication to the Byzantine Empire focused on the persons whose actions determined its course, in the second the attention is directed to events of a pivotal nature.
Some of the topics of the tribute:
– The first siege of Constantinople
– Byzantium in the Crusades
– The last battle of the Roman Empire
– The Battle of Manjikert
Also read:
– Inside Hagia Sophia
A look at the symbol building of glorious Constantinople
– What did the Byzantines do for us?
The Byzantine heritage – from
Rebirth in religion, language, law and… pitchforks
– The Byzantines as debtors and the Venetians as creditors
The incredible borrowing story of Vice-Queen Anne of Savoy
– The Emperor's Scandinavians
The unusual story of the Vikings who became the bodyguards of the Byzantine emperors
Issue #34 of All About History is out:
- on Tuesday 18/01/2022 at the stands of Attica and at selected bookstores everywhere in Greece
- and one month later, on 18/02/2022 at the kiosks of the rest of Greece
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