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Top 10 Chris Wickham Quotes (2025 Update)

Chris Wickham Quote: “The gods were gone, but imperial status remained unchanged –divinus remained a technical term meaning ‘imperial’. The emperor’s position was all the more central in that the Roman empire was regarded as, by definition, always victorious, a belief that survived even the disasters of the fifth century.”

1. “The gods were gone, but imperial status remained unchanged –divinus remained a technical term meaning ‘imperial’. The emperor’s position was all the more central in that the Roman empire was regarded as, by definition, always victorious, a belief that survived even the disasters of the fifth century.”

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Chris Wickham Quote: “Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, which was the largest roofed building to be built in Europe until the thirteenth century.”

2. “Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, which was the largest roofed building to be built in Europe until the thirteenth century.”

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Chris Wickham Quote: “Roman envoys to Attila’s court in 449 greatly offended the Huns when they said that, although Attila was a man, Theodosius II was a god; this was a self-evident statement in Roman eyes, even though the envoys were doubtless overwhelmingly Christian.”

3. “Roman envoys to Attila’s court in 449 greatly offended the Huns when they said that, although Attila was a man, Theodosius II was a god; this was a self-evident statement in Roman eyes, even though the envoys were doubtless overwhelmingly Christian.”

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Chris Wickham Quote: “To survive, Byzantine society and politics folded itself around the state.”

4. “To survive, Byzantine society and politics folded itself around the state.”

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Chris Wickham Quote: “There is a common medieval literary trope, and some actual cases, of enemies being invited to a meal to make peace, and then being killed while eating and drinking; it may have been a sensible strategy, for people’s guards were down, but it was very dishonourable indeed.”

5. “There is a common medieval literary trope, and some actual cases, of enemies being invited to a meal to make peace, and then being killed while eating and drinking; it may have been a sensible strategy, for people’s guards were down, but it was very dishonourable indeed.”

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Chris Wickham Quote: “Europe was now more economically complex, as we have seen; with that complexity came ambiguities of all kinds. And it is in societies where complexity and ambiguity give space for pragmatic solutions that women have in general found it most possible to negotiate space for their own protagonism.”

6. “Europe was now more economically complex, as we have seen; with that complexity came ambiguities of all kinds. And it is in societies where complexity and ambiguity give space for pragmatic solutions that women have in general found it most possible to negotiate space for their own protagonism.”

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Chris Wickham Quote: “The veneration of sacred portraits – icons – has been an essential element of Orthodox Christianity ever since, and marked Byzantine religious culture until the empire’s end.”

7. “The veneration of sacred portraits – icons – has been an essential element of Orthodox Christianity ever since, and marked Byzantine religious culture until the empire’s end.”

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Chris Wickham Quote: “Arabic language and Muslim religion which eventually won out, in all the areas of the caliphate except Iran.”

8. “Arabic language and Muslim religion which eventually won out, in all the areas of the caliphate except Iran.”

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Chris Wickham Quote: “The history of Christian Europe has been studded with religious reform movements; they, so to speak, come with the territory of a religion based on an extremely long sacred text, the Bible, some of whose sections advocate moral values opposed to those of any political system or religious structure which has ever existed, and which attentive readers can discover and rediscover at any time.”

9. “The history of Christian Europe has been studded with religious reform movements; they, so to speak, come with the territory of a religion based on an extremely long sacred text, the Bible, some of whose sections advocate moral values opposed to those of any political system or religious structure which has ever existed, and which attentive readers can discover and rediscover at any time.”

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Chris Wickham Quote: “These were conquests that were never reversed, and they affected the whole geopolitics of Europe and Asia ever after.7.”

10. “These were conquests that were never reversed, and they affected the whole geopolitics of Europe and Asia ever after.7.”

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Chris Wickham Quote: “This was the context, a moderately optimistic one except in the 810s and 820s, for one of the most interesting Christian conflicts of the middle ages, over the power of religious images.”

11. “This was the context, a moderately optimistic one except in the 810s and 820s, for one of the most interesting Christian conflicts of the middle ages, over the power of religious images.”

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