Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, the Byzantine Emperor who preferred books and who offered us a detailed account of Byzantine ...

The mystery of Greek fire continues to baffle historians millennia after its creation. Not only did the 7th-century weapon ...

Cauldron of Dagda: The Witch's Rebirth Part II, the hauntingly poetic second installment in Michaela Riley's celebrated ...

The Byzantine Empire, which dates to the 4th century, was a continuation of the vast Roman Empire with its capital in Constantinople — now Istanbul — with Christianity as its state religion.

Some of his previous reviews for StrategyPage are To Train the Fleet for War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940, The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire , The Age of the Dromon: The Byzantine ...

Historiated initial from a 16th-century edition of the Medical Compendium in Seven Books by Paul of Aegina. Credit: McLeod, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain This hard work bore fruit, as they became ...

Dr Benjamin Fourlas Managing Director of the Leibniz ScienceCampus 'Byzantium between Orient and Occident – Mainz/Frankfurt' ...

Get a better sense of how illnesses have shaped history with these gripping reads about history’s most notorious diseases.

The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453, Sources and Documents, by Cyril Mango (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1972), in 275 searchable and bookmarked pdf pages. This useful book is almost entirely English ...

The fall of the Byzantine Empire : a chronicle by Phrantzēs, Geōrgios, b. 1401; Philippides, Marios, 1950- Publication date 1980 Topics Byzantine Empire -- History -- John VIII Palaeologus, 1425-1448, ...

The Eastern Empire took on Greek as its official language and flourished, while its Latin-speaking counterpart continued to slowly crumble. And the challenges facing the Western Roman Empire would ...