{"id":54,"date":"2005-09-27T09:44:02","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T13:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/?p=54"},"modified":"2005-09-27T09:44:02","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T13:44:02","slug":"the-age-of-faith-byzantine-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/2005\/09\/27\/the-age-of-faith-byzantine-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"The Age of Faith: Byzantine Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m catching up entries from a couple of chapters now read.  In Chapter Six, &#8220;Byzantine Civilization&#8221;, Will Durant covers Byzantine culture from 326-565.   We hear of the philosopher Hypatia and her brutal death and are introduced to the historian Procopius.  Durant cites Procopius throughout the early chapters of <i>The Age of Faith<\/i>, but he is careful to indicate the bias Procopius seems to have brought to his subject.  <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hagia_Sophia\">St. Sophia<\/a> is described as Justinian&#39;s &#8220;supreme achievement, more lasting than his conquests or his laws,&#8221; and in art, &#8220;the mood of the age preferred color to line.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m catching up entries from a couple of chapters now read. In Chapter Six, &#8220;Byzantine Civilization&#8221;, Will Durant covers Byzantine culture from 326-565. We hear of the philosopher Hypatia and her brutal death and are introduced to the historian Procopius. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/2005\/09\/27\/the-age-of-faith-byzantine-civilization\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}