He was one of the most important figures from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, a period of time referred to as Late Antiquity in Europe and the Mediterranean. ... The Byzantine Empire remained a strong and powerful entity in the Middle Ages, but the empire began to decline under the reign of the militarily incompetent Emperor Constantine IX, and again under Constantine X, and a brief two year rule under Isaac I Komnenos, only somewhat delaying the decay of the Byzantine military. ... Byzantine church interiors were generally covered with golden mosaics. ...

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