Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.
Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system that funneled agricultural supplies, and it had a good infrastructure system that funneled these ...
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Why the Medieval Period Is Known as the Middle AgesHerald of Ages explained why the Medieval Period is known as the Middle Ages because it sits between the Roman Empire and the ...
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 ...
Excavations of an ancient Byzantine shipwreck off the coast of Fournoi near Samos, Greece are bringing new finds onto the ...
Not far from Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the fifth-century burial of a person wrapped in heavy metal chains. But the Byzantine-era grave held another surprise: The person who had ...
Peter lived at a very busy time in history. The Great Western Schism (1378-1417) was settled at the Council of Constance ...
Mystras, the 'wonder of the Morea', was built as an amphitheatre around the fortress erected in 1249 by the prince of Achaia, William of Villehardouin. Reconquered by the Byzantines, then occupied by ...
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2016, 320 pp., $29.95 (cloth). From assessing inequality in the Byzantine Empire to musing over where people fall on the global distribution of ...
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