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Lol i was making fun of my mum because she was watching a turkish show and saying something like "You traitor, they kill your ancestors and take Constantinople and you sit here watching their people play pretend?" And ahe responded "Relax, after some time it'll be ours again." ???????? What???? I didn't know my mum had nationalistic tendencies?
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Romanticized depiction of the final fighting at the fall of Constantinople by Greek folk painter Theophilos Hatzimihail (1932)
The only constant
rare aesthetic : someone quits your show and instead of taking it normally, the rest of your employees (for two straight hours) make a summoning circle and talking about how to summon them back in gen chat
The city of Constantinople, dedicated as the new imperial capital in 330 CE by Constantine I "the Great" (reign 306–337 CE), became one of the most strategically important cities of the medieval world. Controlling the Bosporus between Europe and Asia, it served as the political, economic, and religious center of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire. Between 626 and 1453 CE, successive powers, including the Avars, Sasanian Persians, Umayyad Caliphate, First Bulgarian Empire, Crusaders, and Ottoman Empire, attempted to capture the city. Its remarkable defensive record reflected not only its strategic location but also the strength of the Theodosian Walls, sophisticated naval defenses, effective logistics, and the empire's ability to combine military resistance with diplomacy.
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Fascinating history.
La Cité des nuages et des oiseaux, d’Anthony Doerr
Titre
La Cité des nuages et des oiseaux
Auteur
Anthony Doerr
Edition
Albin Michel
Collection
Terres d’Amérique
Date de parution
2021
Biographie de l’auteur
Anthony Doerr est un écrivain américain, romancier et novelliste, né en 1973 à l’Ohio. Il a reçu de nombreux prix, dont notamment le prix Pullitzer en 2015 pour son roman « Toute la lumière que nous ne pouvons pas voir ». Il a publié « le nom des coquillages », « à propos de Grace », « le mur de mémoire » …
Genre
Roman
Mots-clés
Littérature, Roman, Fantastique, multiples époques, Constantinople, vaisseau, Années 1950
Résumé
Le résumé du livre est plus que suffisant pour donner une idée, sans trop dévoiler les intrigues.
« Avez-vous jamais lu un livre capable de vous transporter dans d’autres mondes et à d’autres époques, si fascinant que la seule chose qui compte est de continuer à en tourner les pages ? Le roman d’Anthony Doerr nous entraîne de la Constantinople du XVème siècle jusqu’à un futur lointain où l’humanité joue sa survie à bord d’un étrange vaisseau spatial, en passant par l’Amérique des années 1950 à nos jours. Tous ses personnages ont vu leur destin bouleversé par « la Cité des nuages et des oiseaux », un mystérieux texte de la Grèce Antique qui célèbre le pouvoir de l’écrit et de l’imaginaire. Et si seule la littérature pouvait nous sauver ?
Mon avis
Je l’ai lu il y a bien longtemps, mais il m’a fait forte impression. Tout au long, je peinais à deviner où les intrigues nous menaient, mais la fin a tout dénoué de façon assez naturelle. Nous pouvons bien voir à quel point la littérature a sa force d’une période à une autre, quel que soit son format – un livre en main, une représentation de théâtre, un livre numérique, une tablette ancienne etc… Et à quel point les époques apportent leur changement.
Donner un avis serait spoiler tout le livre, mais je le conseillerai bien à ceux ou celles qui veulent lire une petite ode à la transmission d’une histoire au gré des époques, en suivant le destin de différents personnages.
Note
John Komnenos the Fat’s Failed Bid for the Byzantine Throne
On July 31, 1201, John Komnenos the Fat launched a dramatic but unsuccessful attempt to seize the Byzantine throne from Emperor Alexios III Angelos. Taking advantage of political unrest and growing dissatisfaction within Constantinople, John declared himself emperor and gathered supporters for a sudden coup.
His forces managed to enter the Great Palace and briefly gained control of parts of the capital. However, the rebellion quickly collapsed when loyalist troops rallied behind Alexios III. John was captured, executed, and his supporters were scattered, ending his short-lived challenge for power.
The failed uprising revealed the deep instability that was weakening the Byzantine Empire in the years before the Fourth Crusade and the fall of Constantinople in 1204. John Komnenos the Fat became another figure in the empire’s long history of ambitious claimants whose dreams of the imperial throne ended in disaster.
