She really never forgot where she came from, and she did a lot to improve the lives of women who are traditionally forgotten by people in power. Theodora is integral in turning Constantinople into a beacon of art, of ideas. They built over 25 churche...
-At here in Constantinople when absolutely crazy, burning things down, breaking havoc of town. -And Justinian is ready to run, and Theodora is the one who gets him to stay and fight. -Theodora, a commoner, she says to him that purple makes a fine shr...
Justinian was quite the catch, young and rich. Determined to restore the western part of the Roman empire from the barbarian hordes, he used his generals to conquer the land throughout Mediterranean and Africa, expanding the borders of the eastern Ro...
This is something that was certainly not uncommon of the time. She is constantly trying to make ends meet, but after applying the trade for quite a long time, she is worn out, quite literally. And no one could have imagined what happen next. Theodola...
A lesson young Theodora learned at home.-Theodora is, she has a rough start. She's born into relatively poverty. Her father's a bear trainer. We know how hard that could be. Her mother's an actress, which is synonymous with prostitute. So Theodora th...
Water cooler lowdown1. A fair of prostitutes say St.Thomas Acquinas was quite famous for saying Give me chastity just not yet. He wasn't alone. 2. 20 percent of clergy regularly enjoyed a church brothel visit. 3. But prostitutes weren't just getting...
The church also prohibited freelancers and streetwalkers who weren't working for the church. It's a lot like' and I trust the law now. They are monopolizing and controlling a very, very lucrative market. The Catholic church was a spiritual entity, bu...
The church brothel was formed during the Middle Ages, which meant that the revenue was flowing into the church. It allowed the church to licence the brothel. Brothel revenue was essential to the growth of Roman Catholic Church in the Middle ages. Eve...
There is no doubt that Catholic churches had a contentious relationship with sex and prostitution. The modern church feels that sexual act is sacred within a contested married relationship, and that all sexual acts outside the marriage are great thin...
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