Greek minuscule reshaped Byzantine writing, preserving ancient knowledge and influencing the evolution of modern Greek script ...

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, says ...

During the past century, the tiny, inbred academic field of Byzantine Studies was dominated by professors of British, French, or Slavic heritage. More recently, a generation of young scholars with ...

From the ancient Greek city of Philadelphia—modern Amman—to the mosaic marvels of Madaba, Jordan's landscape reveals ...

Emperor, was loaded. He sent a bunch of expensive gifts to the Abbasid Caliph, and his own throne was solid gold with golden ...

In the midst of the Third Crusade, a surprising alliance emerged between Saladin and a rebel Byzantine noble—Isaac Komnenos ...

Eirene-Sophia Kiapidou, Byzantine Historiographical Prefaces (4th–15th Centuries): A Study on the Praxis and Culture of Writing History in Byzantium (Byzantioς: Studies in Byzantine History and ...

Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. viii, 1152. Illus., maps, appends, gloss., notes, biblio., index. $45.00. ISBN: 0197549322 The Empire that ...

The exhibition focuses on the multi-cultural nature and the story of institutionalization of Byzantine studies in Turkey. With the exhibition, many materials, such as archive documents or videos, can ...

As I played Gorogoa I was struck by how much the visual style seemed reminiscent of key elements in the art and architecture ...