1 minThe oldest depiction of the Devil in art dates back to the Byzantine eraThe oldest representations of Lucifer in art date back to the Byzantine era. In the church of Saint Apollinarius in Ravenna is a...
1 minThe Byzantine emperor who declared that Sunday be a day of restIn July of 321 BC, Emperor Constantine proclaimed Sunday as a day off. The reason was that it was a day dedicated to the sun god, Sol...
1 minThe "democracy" of the Byzantine state.In Byzantium, the concept of the kingdom was not based on the Western feudal patterns we are familiar with today through movies and...