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 ...

Foreign warriors recruited by the Byzantine Empire were initially given a suit ... Britons fought in Byzantine armies, although their military prowess — especially at fighting in woods ...

The Byzantine Empire is known for many things, however, not many people know the unusual life journeys of some of its emperors, like Basil I.

The burial sites have been dated to approximately 575AD, when England was still part of the Eastern Roman Empire. Prior research has shown that soldiers in Britain were recruited by the Byzantine ...

Specific choices by emperors and feudal leaders weakened the economy, undercut the military, and sapped the empire’s cultural energy. George Ostrogorsky in his magisterial History of the Byzantine ...

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 ...

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 ...