A deep dive into the Byzantine Empire’s overlooked legacy explores how Greek civilisation shaped medieval Europe, preserved ancient knowledge, influenced the Renaissance and helped define modern Greek ...

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, says ...

During the past century, the tiny, inbred academic field of Byzantine Studies was dominated by professors of British, French, or Slavic heritage. More recently, a generation of young scholars with ...

Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. viii, 1152. Illus., maps, appends, gloss., notes, biblio., index. $45.00. ISBN: 0197549322 The Empire that ...

This icon commemorates the Triumph of Orthodoxy, a pivotal moment in Byzantine history. It depicts the Empress Theodora, dressed in red, who restored the use of images in religious worship in AD 843.

I was in Paris during my sophomore year of college when I started reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I made my way through the first volume, immersed in the decadence of the late ...

WHEN Nikolai Patrushev, head of Russia's federal security service (FSB), spoke to his staff to mark the 90th anniversary of the Soviet secret service last year, he made an odd historic diversion.

Alongside its mosques, Istanbul is a city known for its palaces. To any visitor, the gigantic but humbly designed Topkapi Palace near the Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque is a must see. Across the Golden ...