ARH 2050 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Barberini Ivory, Fall Of Constantinople, Corpus Juris Civilis
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Chapter 8 the art and architecture of byzantium. The name for the eastern christian roman empire, also called the byzantine empire, comes from the name of the ancient greek site of byzantium on which constantine built his new eponymous capital, The (cid:272)it(cid:455), ofte(cid:374) (cid:272)alled the (cid:862)ne(cid:449) o(cid:373)e(cid:863) (cid:449)as fou(cid:374)ded (cid:271)(cid:455) co(cid:374)sta(cid:374)ti(cid:374)e i(cid:374) 330. With the sack of rome in 410 and the virtual collapse of that city by 476, the last roman emperor, Romulus augustus, left sole imperial authority to the emperor in the east. These (cid:862)b(cid:455)za(cid:374)ti(cid:374)e(cid:863) e(cid:373)perors were the legitimate and rightful heirs or successors to the ancient roman emperors. In the east the byzantine emperor was the ruler of both the church and the state, exerting all spiritual and temporal authority; aspects that the western empire would keep separate. The byzantine empire survived until 1453 when constantinople finally fell to the ottoman turks, an. Islamic group from eastern anatolia, whose empire lasted until 1923.
