Gloriosa Nova Roma Byzantina

A Chronicle as a tribute to Byzanrtium, from Discovery Channel, showing us the Byzantine Empire, starting at 330 A.D till the end in 1453. John Romer is amazing to it' s role both as a narrator and theatrical actor, trying to transfer  us the life as it appeared those years: 

Note from Gloria Nova Romae Byzantina: Our blog inaugurates a tribute to medieval chronographers. Today we present the Armenian Matthew of Edessa. We gathered information from English Wikipedia and some excerpts from his Chronicle. These excerpts are very useful in order to understand the 11th and part of the 12th centuries in Byzantium. Matthew of Edessa ( Armenian :  Մատթեոս Ուռհայեցի , Matteos Uṛhayetsi; born in the second half of the 11th century – 1144) was an  Armenian  historian in the 12th century from the city of  Edessa  ( Armenian :  Ուռհա  , Uṛha). Matthew was the superior  abbot  of Karmir Vank' (Red Convent), near the town of Kessoun, east of  Marash (Germanicia), the former seat of  Baldwin of Boulogne . He relates much about the  Bagratuni Kingdom of Armenia , the early  Crusades , and the battles between  Byzantines and  Arabs  for the possession of parts of...