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 ...

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 ...