The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories in Egypt, North Africa, and the Levant lost to the expanding Islamic ...

The Byzantine Empire is known for many things, however, not many people know the unusual life journeys of some of its emperors, like Basil I.

Michael III, the "Alcoholic" Byzantine Emperor, ruled surprisingly well despite his controversial behavior and personal ...

The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I came close to uniting the former Roman Empire less than a century after its fall. However, ...

The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire ... Historians call the republic’s later, third phase the Dominate—during which military emperors, ruling from wherever military ...

The wealth of the nation was due to trade and to its military strength. At the same time, western Roman cities began to crumble while Constantinople remained stable. How did the Byzantine Empire ...

Harvard University Press, 2008 . Pp. xv, 381 . Illus., map, diagr., notes, biblio., index . $19.95 paper. ISBN:0884023397 Originally published in hard cover over 20 years ago, Three Byzantine Military ...

Dionysos Stathakopoulos, currently at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, stands out among these. He writes: "My aim was to produce a clear account of the long history of the Byzantine Empire based ...