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 ...

It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the rising ... and don't pay for the kids' college.

The Byzantine Empire maintained an intriguing relationship with ancient China, thus sending ambassadors there.

Women played diverse and influential roles in the Byzantine Empire that extended far beyond the domestic affairs of each family.

The focus of the book is a particular region of the Byzantine Empire, Cappadocia, within Anatolia, in the centre of what is now Turkey. Its history as a part of this confederation of territories ...

It wasn’t. Spreading east in the 11th century, the Normans soon became a feared part of the Byzantine army, but a mercenary’s loyalty is always to his paymaster, as the empire would soon discover.