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 ...

Istanbul makes an exotic first impression: Boat traffic on the Bosporus sends waves brushing up against the shores of both Europe and Asia as enormous mosques and monuments from previous empires stand ...

During the past century, the tiny, inbred academic field of Byzantine Studies was dominated by professors of British, French, or Slavic heritage. More recently, a generation of young scholars with ...

Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. viii, 1152. Illus., maps, appends, gloss., notes, biblio., index. $45.00. ISBN: 0197549322 The Empire that ...

Archaeological excavations in Turkey that began in 2004 have yielded a unique historical treasure — 37 shipwrecks from the Byzantine Empire, eight of which are now described in a new report. The ...

This icon commemorates the Triumph of Orthodoxy, a pivotal moment in Byzantine history. It depicts the Empress Theodora, dressed in red, who restored the use of images in religious worship in AD 843.

The Byzantine Empire is at the core of world history and continued to live on in the Orthodox Church. The following are some of Byzantines’ historical contributions to civilization and the church: The ...

I was in Paris during my sophomore year of college when I started reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I made my way through the first volume, immersed in the decadence of the late ...