The Byzantine Empire turned to the West for help—but the consequences were far more complex than expected. What began as an ...
Historian whose sparky, innovative Byzantines challenged the stereotype of a stagnant society with nothing new to offer ...
Michael III, the "Alcoholic" Byzantine Emperor, ruled surprisingly well despite his controversial behavior and personal ...
A portrait of the final Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palailogos, has been discovered by archaeologists in Greece. The portrait was found on a mid-15th century fresco uncovered at a monastery in ...
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Chaka of Smyrna, the forgotten warlord who almost toppled Byzantium
In the desperate years of the early 1090s, a renegade Turkic commander built a fleet, seized the Aegean islands, and ...
Dame Averil Cameron, who has died aged 86, was Professor of Byzantine History at Oxford, and a leading voice in a generation ...
Archaeological excavations in modern-day Spain have revealed a Byzantine-era fort complete with a church that was once used ...
Most people are aware of the song “Istanbul was Constantinople” and perhaps no better than the Greeks of Istanbul themselves.
The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense, says ...
About a century before the fall of the Byzantine Empire — the eastern portion of the vast Roman Empire — signs of its impending doom were written in garbage. Archaeologists recently investigated ...
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