Byzantium the Forgotten Empire
Event Type: Branch
Takes Place: 20th January 2025
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Description: An exploration of one of the great cultural and political forces of the Middles Ages that somehow never made it onto the school curriculum. The lecture looks at who the Byzantines were and why their state endured for so long in very adverse circumstances between the fourth and fifteenth centuries. Finally, it will consider why and how, in the end, it disappeared
How to book: Zoom link will be published before the event
Price: Free for members and students, £4 for guests
Tel: 01242574889
Email: histassocglos@gmail.com
Organiser: Andrea Robertson
Lecturer: Professor Jonathan Harris, Professor of the History of Byzantium, Royal Holloway, University of London
Region: West Midlands
Branch: Gloucestershire