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 ...

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

The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453 ... on a level with the nearly contemporary work of Giotto or the greatest achievements of the High Renaissance." Ash is our armchair guide, and we are ...

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 ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by ... formidable artistic and intellectual achievements of the Byzantines, Norwich ...