Tag: Byzantium

• Podcast 27 – Silk Worms. Silk Trade. Silk Roads.

  

  Episode 27 of the Burning Archive podcast asks: How did the Byzantine Empire acquire the secrets of silk production from China, and what does it tell us about the history of silk, the diffusion of silk trade across the world, and the Silk Roads of Eurasia?

  Jeff Rich

  November 13, 2021

  The Burning Archive Podcast

  Byzantium, China, Eurasia, history, podcast, Silk Roads, Silk worms

• Sailing to Byzantium

  

  Since I am on holidays from work, and not consumed with duties and obligations, I have returned to an old habit of virtue, and spent time memorising poetry. The poem I am committing to memory today is Yeats’ Sailing to Byzantium. The choice of this poem itself was prompted by reading Richard Fidler’s Ghost Empire, […]

  Jeff Rich

  January 3, 2018

  culture, history

  Byzantium, culture, Ghost Empire, history, poetry, WB Yeats