Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Early Centuries of the Greek Roman East
• The Greek-Orthodox Church
  • Christianity and Classical Culture
  • Greek Myth and the Eastern vs. Western Churches
  • Art and Iconography
  • The Iconoclastic Period
• The Fight to Survive
• The Golden Age of Romiosini
  • The Macedonian Dynasty
  • The Comnenian Dynasty
• The Crusades and the First Strikes at Constantinople
• A Brief Recovery and the Palaeologan Dynasty
• The Fall of Constantinople, 1453
• The effect of the Greek East on the European Renaissance

Appendix

• Chronology of Events in the Eastern Roman Empire
• List of Eastern Roman Emperors
• International Currency in the Middle Ages
• Maps of the Eastern Roman Empire
• Greek Fire

Icon Gallery

• Greek-Orthodox Icons from the Middle Ages
  

Bibliography

• Sources used in this Project

Further References

• Center of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
• Byzatine Studies Homepage
• Church documents
• Greek-Orthdox Icons and Hymns
• Greek-Orthdox Chants
• The Ecumenical Patriarchate Webserver
• The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Homepage
• The Homepage of the Archdiocese of Cyprus
• Asia Minor Homepage
• Hagion Oros (Mount Athos) Homepage
• Meteora Homepage
• Churches of Cyprus
• Churches of Karpasia
• Churches of Northern Epirus
• Churches of Moscow: Photographs and history
• Churches of St.Petersburg
• Churches of Kiev
• St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
• Diaspora Newsletter
• Hellenic Electronic Center
  
  

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