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  1. For #AllSaintsDay the mosaic from the sanctuary arch of Santa Prassede in #Rome showing the saints marching into the pearly gates, greeted by Paul and Peter. Must be the men's entrance. Ninth century.

    flic.kr/p/2eDtp5Y

    #photography
    #Byzantine
    #Medieval
    #Mosaics
    #Italy

    @visualarts @humanities @travel @theology

  2. For #AllSaintsDay the mosaic from the sanctuary arch of Santa Prassede in #Rome showing the saints marching into the pearly gates, greeted by Paul and Peter. Must be the men's entrance. Ninth century. flic.kr/p/2eDtp5Y #photography #Byzantine #Medieval #Mosaics #Italy

    Arriving at the Jeweled Gates ...

  3. RUSPINA-MONASTIR ROMAINE ET TARDO-ANTIQUE. Une histoire nouvelle".

    Le livre passe en revue l'histoire de la ville de RUSPINA pendant une longue période allant de 146 avant JC à 698 après JC, une date symbolique correspondant à la chute de #Carthage, et couvre ainsi les étapes de l'histoire républicaine #romaine et de l'époque impériale, puis la période #Wendale et #Byzantine.

    babnet.net/mobile/cadredetail-

    #Livre #histoire #Tunisie

  4. Phenomenal Ravenna ! 😃

    This is the place of the first pixel war, since the mosaics have been created to celebrate the win of Justinian’s armies over Goths

    #holiday #holidays #trip #holidaytrip #ravenna #italia #basilica #basilicasanvitale #mosaic #justinian #byzantine #byzance #byzantium #theodora #pixelwar

  5. Allegedly, #Prighozhin’s march on #Moscow has ended in a deal brokered by #Lukashenko, in which #Wagner Group forces will head to #Belarus and … become Lukashenko’s #Varangian Guard, or something? Assuming of course #Putin doesn’t wait for them to get strung out on the road and bomb them all to bits.

    I can’t help but be struck by how antiquated all this feels. The Varangian Guard reference above is deliberate—the whole thing is #Byzantine in both the original and modern senses of that word. Shades of #Belisarius and #Justinian. Yes, I know I’m mixing up periods, and the analogy is inexact in all kinds of ways: history doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes.

    #Kings and #emperors and shifting personal loyalties, not cold-blooded calculation of national interests. It’s not the way #modern states make #war—even though #Ukraine may well be the first modern war of the twenty-first century, through future eyes. Something older, more visceral, rising from ancient slumber.

    Hell of a time to be alive. I suppose that’s always true.

  6. @Renegade_GDI
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    I am a fan of #Viking history, and learned a couple of years ago that the #Varangian #Rus' presence was not limited to being the #VarangianGuard of the #Byzantine emperor.

    Apart from that, in my understanding #Sveinald #Ingvarsson's (Sviatoslav I, aka #Sviatoslav the Brave, Grand Prince of #Kiev*) fascinating...

    @EU_ISS