Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor and all of a sudden, deciding to abandon everything and become a monk in a monastery.

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

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 ...

Unbeknownst to a group of researchers digging near a small Italian town, a Christian basilica once stood in a Roman military colony. Thousands of years later, it was unearthed. The major discovery ...

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 ...

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 ...