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Roman Cassia Senina recounts the events that took place in the Byzantine Empire in the first half of the IX century. Against the background of the wars of the Empire with the Bulgarians and the Arabs, church-political unrest and the fight against the iconoclasts with ikonopochitateley unfolding story of the life and relationships of the main characters - the famous Byzantine poet Kassia, Emperor Theophilus and his wife Theodora. Intellectual life of the Byzantine elite with its problems and philosophy of life, life and customs of the imperial court, the fight against religious parties and the life of the monks have become the setting for a love story that transcends all the external and internal obstacles, and eventually leading characters to realize the true meaning of all that, them proizoshlo.An absorbing narrative of events taking place in the Byzantine Empire in the early IX century. The action is developing as a dramatic romance with three main figures involved: the nun Kassia, a famous poetess, the Emperor Theophilos, and his wife Theodora, while in the background the Empire is fighting its enemies - Bulgars and Arabs as well as this the Church is agonizing at the iconoclastic-iconodulic schism. Sophisticated philosophy of the Byzantine intellectual elite with all the variety of political intrigues at the Emperor's Court and the monastic life are framing the allconquering love-story of the hero and heroines that overcome both extern and inner difficulties bringing the main characters to the deep insight into their true selves and discovering the sense of the crucial events in their lives.

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