Tag Archives: William Lecky

SAILING TO BYZANTIUM

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Dave

”They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony:they read, they praised, they compiled. but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Anastasius Byzantine, Barberini Ivory, Byzantine Art, Byzantium, Constantine The Great, Edward Gibbon, Hagia Sophia, Jesus, Justin II Byzantium, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, True Cross in Jerusalem, True Cross Vatican, W.B. Yeats, William Lecky | Leave a comment

WHERE THE WEST WAS WON

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Dave

The achievement of the Byzantines was to keep barbarians at bay, create a new art, preserve Western culture for a thousand years, and push a little further the limits of piety and depravity. It is only recently that the word … Continue reading →