Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor and all of a sudden, deciding to abandon everything and become a monk in a monastery.

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 ...

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

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 ...

For the Eastern Roman Empire -- known to us as "Byzantine" -- the Danube was a critical military and political frontier. In the disastrous seventh century this frontier was overwhelmed by invading ...

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 ...