Series I — The Roman Empire Before Manzikert (11th Century)

This opening series situates the Roman Empire in the decades preceding the Battle of Manzikert. The territorial plate reflects the Empire between c. 1055–1064, a period in which imperial authority still extended across much of Anatolia and the Balkans.

Rather than isolating figures from their context, the series presents the Empire through three interconnected studies:

• Plate I — Romanos IV Diogenes, Emperor of the Romans

• Plate II — The Empire c. 1055–1064, territorial reconstruction

• Plate III — The Imperial Cataphract (11th Century), reconstructed within its administrative and military framework

Taken together, these works examine imperial authority in three dimensions: sovereignty, territory, and organised force. The focus is not on rupture, but on structure — on the institutional continuity that defined the Roman state in the mid-eleventh century.

Each plate is delivered as a high-resolution archival file (11008 × 6144 px), suitable for large-format printing.