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	<title>Aeneas' Quest</title>
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	<description>A Byzantine Walls weblog, by Sylvain Ray</description>
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		<title>A Germanic Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will Durant, in his History of Civilization, remarked that when Luther and the other Protestant groups broke from Rome, it was as if the German peoples had thrown off Rome&#8217;s hegemony a second time&#8211;the first being the taking over of the Western Roman Empire. 
This remark is interesting, because it touches a point often made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aeneas.byzantinewalls.org/2010/02/25/a-germanic-europe/</link>
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		<title>Art between Byzantium and Italy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Byzantine influence upon the Western world was most marked in Italy&#8211;not surpisingly, since the Italian peninsula was the wealthiest part of Western Europe, and was always close enough to the Byzantine Empire to feel its influence. Italian religious art was, until the early 14th century, wholly Greek in style, before it developped in a different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aeneas.byzantinewalls.org/2010/02/05/art-between-byzantium-and-italy/</link>
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		<title>Human dignity in the Byzantine politeia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These developments in the relationship between basileia and hierosyne are reflected in imperial iconography – i.e., in the way in which emperors are depicted.  Down to the time of the iconoclastic controversy, emperors most often were depicted in ways that emphasized their power – crowned with victory, for example, or astride a horse, trampling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aeneas.byzantinewalls.org/2009/12/17/human-dignity-in-the-byzantine-politeia/</link>
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		<title>A Secular Age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why was it virtually impossible not to believe in God in 1500 in our Western society, while in 2000 many of us find this not only easy, but even inescapable?&#8221;
This is the question Charles Taylor posits and (brilliantly) attempts to answer in the following 776 pages. Taylor rejects the notion that secularism came about by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aeneas.byzantinewalls.org/2009/12/02/a-secular-age/</link>
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		<title>On Byzantine political theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is remarkable to consider how much has been written on the notion of the early Christian and Byzantine attitudes to political theory relying on the singularly useless concept of caesaro-papism. It illuminates nothing, apart from the standing-point of the user. It was, in origin, a term of disparagement, comparable in its intent to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aeneas.byzantinewalls.org/2009/11/25/on-byzantine-political-theory/</link>
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