George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

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

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting ... the Western world awoke and arose. Some kinder 20th-century scholars have offered modest corrections to 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 ...