On June 8, 793, the tranquil monastic community of Lindisfarne—an island off the northeast coast of Northumbria—was shattered by an act of violence so sudden, so foreign, and so brutal that it marked, in the minds of chroniclers and modern historians alike, the beginning…
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After more than two millennia, the Roman Empire—transfigured, fragmented, renamed, and reimagined—finally collapsed on May 29, 1453, as Ottoman forces under Sultan Mehmed II breached the gates of Constantinople following a 53-day siege. With the city’s fall came the extinguishing of the last imperial…
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