With the fall of Constantinople in 1453, most believed that the life and presence of the Eastern Roman Empire, which had lasted 1123 years, was over. However, this was not the case. The Greek Empire of the East had, before its fall, ensured the preservation of its presence for many centuries afterward, a presence that continues to this day.
This is primarily due to the intellectual output of the empire, to the works of high thought that touch on every area of knowledge. The last centuries, which from a political, economic, and social perspective were centuries of decline, were for the intellectual output centuries of flourishing, of peak creation, in a word, centuries of spiritual greatness. Thus, the empire, politically collapsing, maintained global spiritual dominance.
On the pages of this book, the reader can find excerpts from texts of the last Byzantine period, undeniable samples of the spiritual greatness of an empire that, while dying, was being reborn and simultaneously giving rise to new life.
