In 944, Sayf al-Dawla established himself as the head of the independent Hamdanid Emirate of Aleppo. Sayf’s rule over his ...

Now, imagine trading all that for a life of quiet... After the tremendously successful reign of Basil II, the eleventh century signaled a turn of fortunes in a far more negative direction for the ...

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

Then I entered an entirely new and exotic realm — the eastern Roman Empire, a dominion that survived the fall of Rome in 476 by almost a thousand years. The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453 ...

The Byzantine Empire was built on the backs of the rural and urban labour force. From agricultural production and the extraction of raw materials to the physical construction of urban centres and ...

The Byzantine Review ist eine open-access Zeitschrift im Peer-Review-Verfahren, welche Besprechungen von Neuerscheinungen und kurze Beiträge aus allen Bereichen der byzantinischen Studien ...

charity concert, featuring Byzantine music, in support of children diagnosed with autism, on May 26. The goal of the concert is to raise the necessary funds to support families whose children have ...

The East after the disintegration of the Mongol Empire. Credit: Rowanwindwhistler / Wikimedia Commons It was he who finished ... and a Breton contingent), so he needed allies. He brought in the ...

A handful of popes came from North Africa and the Middle East, but they were elected in the early centuries of the church, during the time of the Roman and Byzantine empires. “To have leadership ...

The law of unintended consequences says that in complex systems, disruptive events can lead to unexpected and often undesirable results, writes .