The Byzantine Empire, which lasted for over a millennium, is one of history's most fascinating empires, not just for its ...

The Republican candidates for president debated Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Cain’s flat rate for income, corporate, and sales tax would replace the Byzantine U.S ...

Appendices include a detailed timeline, a short essay on “Peoples Around Byzantium,” and “Further Reading,” a very up to date annotated bibliography. The fascinating last chapter recounts the fate of ...

A chronology of key events: 1453 - Sultan Mehmed II captures Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and consolidating Ottoman Empire in Asia Minor and Balkans. 15th-16th Centuries - The ...

The Byzantine Empire’s long run — 1,100 years — may seem remote from the 21st century, but a reading of its history offers at least three timeless lessons.

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 ...

In Greek Orthodox Christianity, which was the official religion of the Byzantine Empire that lasted from 312 to 1453 A.D., some factions were against sacred images and some in favor of them.

The Variable Earth’s Rotation in the 4th–7th Centuries: New ΔT Constraints from Byzantine Eclipse Records. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific , 2022; 134 (1039): 094401 ...