The Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived state that emerged during the Fourth Crusade after the sack of Constantinople in 1204.

In the late summer of Constantine's reign, "New Rome" appeared on the scene - an incredible Christian city with monumental architecture, immense wealth, and great wealth. In what ways was the ...

Criterion (iii): Mystras constitutes a unique example of a Byzantine city, an expression of flourishing urban society within the late Byzantine Empire. As a political and administrative provincial ...

Among its many religious relics, the Khirbat el-Masani monastery, in the northern part of the city, held secrets ... the monastic order of the Byzantine Empire. Determining the sex of a centuries ...

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

The city was burned, the inhabitants killed or ... But it is time to lay his mistaken notions of the Byzantine Empire, decadent and dying, to rest.

‘Of that Byzantine Empire the universal verdict of history is that it constitutes, without a single exception, the most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilization has yet assumed….The ...

He writes: "My aim was to produce a clear account of the long history of the Byzantine Empire based on the latest research in all major European languages. I also wanted to highlight and explain ...