Word: byzantium
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...Byzantine chair stems in part, according to Huggins, from a letter sent by Charles Malik, Lebanese Ambassador to the U.N., to President Emeritus Conant in 1952. Malik wrote, "At the bottom of the great division in the world today certainly lies the spiritual estrangement between Rome and Byzantium which occurred a thousand years ago. The healing of this breach is an indispensable condition for real peace and understanding. I hope... Harvard will stand out in the Western Hemisphere as the place most clearly indicated for that purpose. I think such an act of charity on the part of Western Protestantism...
Istanbul's million and a half Moslems, Christians and Jews go about their business among ancient ruins, aqueducts, walls and cisterns that are dead relics of Byzantium's glory. But Istanbul's strongest link with the past is very much alive: looming (6 ft.-4 in.), white-bearded Athenagoras I, 67, the 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church...
...captured by the Turks in 1453. This was his "wordless answer" to both the extreme Moslems who want it converted to a mosque and the extreme Orthodox who clamor for its reconversion to a church. To newsmen who plagued him for an explanation, he said: "In the time of Byzantium, Hagia Sophia was open to all. Today, as a museum, it is again open...
...sadism scenes to outfit a single chapter of many historicals. He simply tells a fine story full of color and action, informed with a sense of history as pervasive as it is unobtrusive. Professors trying to explain how the Turks were able to wallop the Christian armies of Byzantium could do much worse than assign The Lady for Ransom...
...Frankish knights of the day,11th century Roussel de Balliol offered his sword for hire-and even then, before the Crusades, the steadiest work around was fighting the infidel. When Roussel and his troop of 300 mailed warriors got a chance to hire out to the Emperor of Byzantium to fight the Turks, he jumped at the chance. Out in Asia Minor, at the very frontiers of the Christian world, there were chances which a mercenary might never have in Europe...