This remarkable new recording from the choir Cappella Romana uses digital processing to recreate Byzantine chant as worshipers in Hagia Sophia would have heard it.
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Book Review: ‘Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities’ by Bettany Hughes
Hughes makes it easy to believe that should human civilization persist another thousand years, Istanbul – by whatever name it may go by at that time – is likely to remain central to its region and the world.
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This historical novel fails to quite come to terms with a great character of history.
Read More »Book Review: 428AD: An Ordinary Year At The End of the Roman Empire by Giusto Traina
The end of the Roman empire, as the people really lived it.
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