The true story of Byzantium's fall reveals a legacy betrayed by the West, misunderstood by the Left, and weaponised by the ...

Byzantine Empress Theodora, would become an actress, prostitute, mistress, feminist, empress of the civilized world, and ...

Mosaic of Byzantine Empress Theodora. Credit: Petar Milosevic, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 The amazing relationship between Byzantine Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora is one of the most ...

Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But a love affair with a handsome Greek whom she meets in Byzantium ...

Built by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I ... of conformity to his theology. Justinian's generosity to widows was most likely a function of his wife Theodora's influence, whose life and ...

The artist wrote to his romantic partner Emilie Flöge that he considered Ravenna’s glittering mosaics “incredibly stunning,” including the famed depictions of Emperor and Empress Justinian ...

These words, which Dante Alighieri places in the mouth of Justinian I, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire ... It was during this time that Belisarius received the order from Empress Theodora to ...

THEODORA AND THE EMPEROR (336 pp ... the peasant emperor loses in stature and the prostitute empress takes on a regal aspect. Justinian is seen as a dull, lifelong scholar, a grubber for ...

Justinian “The Great” was born about 482 in a peasant village in what is now Serbia. He became Emperor in 527, ruling until his death in 565. Theodora was born about 500, married Justinian in 525 and ...