Casia (ca. 810-ca. 867) es la principal poetisa medieval en lengua griega y la primera compositora musical cuyas partituras se conservan. Mujer de fuerte personalidad, participó en el concurso de belleza para elegir a la nueva emperatriz. Sin embar...
Iconoclasm was the name given to the stance of that portion of Eastern Christianity that rejected worshipping God through images (eikones) representing Christ, the Virgin or the saints and was the official doctrine of the Byzantine Empire for most of the...