Greetings and hugs from near the Grand Canyon! Keep up you being you! Awesome shows you've done . So informative. Wish i had your itinerary!

Thank you for this excellent video about art in the Early Middle Ages!

Your videos are fantastic and so is your intro music. Always a delight!

You are my all time favourite person and only one whom I have been following since 2020😊

Thank Rick...❤

Very educational and informative! Thank you so much!

Love the church of San Vitale in Ravenna.

Demek Romalı senatörler kiliseye piskopos oldular?Gözlerim faltaşı gibi açıldı (!)Böyle güzel anlatımı hangi kitapta bulabilirdim bilmiyorum.thanks.

how I wish I could go around Europe 📿🙏😍 Watching here fr. the Philippines 🇵🇭

The old introductory music is back! ❤

Good analogy between the Roman Empire and the Christian Church. Rick Steves got it right when he said the Senators became Bishops (or Cardinals) and the Emperor became the Pope. That is exactly the way the Roman Catholic Church evolved.

The art of the European middle ages is among my favorite.❤🎨🖼🎭😊 23:07

Good content, but it’s all recycled. Nothing new here. All old content, and I know, because I am a big Rick Steves fan.

The same can be said today: "Desperate erate for security, they bowed down to the local warlord, who was armed with a castle and knights, and backed by the church. The lord promised land and protection..." Anyone who can smell the fall of today's "Roman Empire "?

@jjns5600

6 күн бұрын

That's not at all accurate. Today, Western society and beyond aren't politically, economically and socially constrained by lifetime "caste" systems. Mobility is to be seen everywhere, quite honestly, as is the representation of all peoples in actively participating in global change. Of course the rigors of history to create this advancement always stems from repression and subjugation.

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7:42 what city is this? Excellent program, thank you!

@ricksteves

Күн бұрын

That's the fortress city of Carcassonne, France!

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2:12 The WESTERN Roman Empire.......The ESTERN Roman Empire STILL STANDING ☝️☝️☝️☝️💪

you forgot the amazing uniqe byzantine chapel of Ravenna or the one in Paudua

@maily8388

17 күн бұрын

Just visiting Byzantine recently, the Hagia Sophia was amazing, as well as basilica Cristin in Istanbul.

Odd to say that the Roman Emperor was replaced by the Pope when all of the barbarian kingdoms of the early medieval period recognized the Byzantine Emperor as the Roman Emperor until Irene became empress and prompted Charlemagne's usurpation of the title in ~800

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There are only two people I have met, where the image of them being excreted by ogres, brings me comfort. 🙂

@chewie1644

22 күн бұрын

My sister-in-law! 😂

❤ Mavelous speaking history appreciated your entire work good luck. PAKISTAN

After western* Rome fell. There is no “Byzantium” only the Eastern Roman Empire. Classic Western European disingenuousness to downplay the legacy of Constantinople

@paullewis2413

13 күн бұрын

While this is often the case, I don’t think he downplayed the Eastern Empire at all. Whether you want to call this Byzantium or not is hardly relevant, what is important is recognising that Constantinople continued the Roman Empire of the East and was well ahead of Western Europe in culture and learning , a fact that was covered in this programme.

I'm afraid that I find this outdated approach quite irritating