The terminal events surrounding the fall of great empires have long been studied, pondered and argued over. Edward Gibbon’s “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” comes to mind as one of the best ...

Comme en témoigne un faisceau d'indices convergents, S. Thomas a cité le concile de Constantinople II (553) dès le quatrième livre du Contra Gentiles, entre 1264 et 1265. Son texte montre qu'à partir ...

When the Ottomans, led by Sultan Mehmed II, captured Constantinople on May 29, 1453, bringing an end to the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantine Empire, they virtually controlled all the territories that ...

The Byzantine Empire considered itself to be the caretaker of the Christian religion. The emperor was chosen by God and God had chosen the empire as the wheel to spread Christianity. Christianity was ...

Vikings Valhalla is on Netflix and Leif Erikson (played by Sam Corlett) and Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter) settled their differences to work together. They travelled to Constantinople as part of a new ...

After taking Constantinople in 1453, Mehmed II transformed the Ottomans from a frontier state into a Muslim superpower. His vision would shape the Islamic world for centuries. Peter Greene, actor ...