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 ...

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories ...

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 ...

Asceticism is the practice of denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal, often ...

The social position of Byzantine women is not easy to assess considering the vast reach of the empire and the many cultures it encompassed.

Archaeologists in Turkey have made a surprising discovery that challenges our understanding of early Christian practices in ...

Anicia Juliana was a Byzantine woman who managed to conquer the fields of architecture, using her massive wealth and noble lineage.

As the accompanying photos show, Florida and humanity at large, have suffered many banes of existence, from cholera to yellow ...

an expression of flourishing urban society within the late Byzantine Empire. As a political and administrative provincial centre of the Byzantine state, Mystras became a unique intellectual, cultural ...