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Judith Herrin Biography

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“In this sense, Byzantine culture embodies the French historian Fernand Braudel's notion of the longue durée, the long term: that which survives the vicissitudes of changing governments, newfangled fashions or technological improvements, an ongoing inheritance that can both imprison and inspire.”

HistoryByzantine EmpireFernand BraudelLongue Duree
Book:Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
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“A whole range of activities remained largely unregulated, spontaneously generating separate forms of organisation, and existing independently of any consecrated 'official' To overlook the extent of private initiative would be to ignore a major impulse to early Christian expansion. In homes, whole families adopted a style of life modelled on the Apostles.”

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Book:The Formation of Christendom
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