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

The Byzantine Empire is known for many things, however, not many people know the unusual life journeys of some of its emperors, like Basil I.

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories in Egypt, North Africa, and the Levant lost to the expanding Islamic ...

The wealth of the nation was due to trade and to its military strength. At the same time, western Roman cities began to crumble while Constantinople remained stable. How did the Byzantine Empire ...

For the Eastern Roman Empire -- known to us as "Byzantine" -- the Danube was a critical military and political frontier. In the disastrous seventh century this frontier was overwhelmed by invading ...

Foreign warriors recruited by the Byzantine Empire were initially given a suit ... Britons fought in Byzantine armies, although their military prowess — especially at fighting in woods ...

ISBN: 0197549322 The Empire that Survived “Of the Byzantine Empire the universal verdict of history ... But behind the more colorful figures, there labored a host of bureaucrats, lawyers, military ...