Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor and all of a sudden, deciding to abandon everything and become a monk in a monastery.

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife ... survived its losses but had a resurgence in the 9th to 11th centuries, with a revival of classical Hellenic art and ...

He is particularly interested in the later Byzantine Empire, after the tenth century. The 600 years following the reign of Constantine the Great (who, in the early fourth century, converted to ...

At the turn of the third century. In the late summer of Constantine's reign, "New Rome" appeared on the scene - an incredible Christian city with monumental architecture, immense wealth, and great ...

During the past century, the tiny, inbred academic field of Byzantine ... He writes: "My aim was to produce a clear account of the long history of the Byzantine Empire based on the latest research in ...