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 ...

This replicated state machine then greatly simplifies the design of BAR-tolerant protocols. As an illustration, we show a BAR-tolerant cooperative backup application, BAR-B. We hope that this paper ...

during which Greek became the official language of the Byzantine state. Heraclius’ father, Heraclius the Elder, was an Armenian exarch of Carthage and a seasoned general under Emperor Maurice, with a ...

Her courage and political audacity prompted Justinian to stand firm and eventually emerge victorious, something that not only saved them personally fates but also secured the stability of the ...

The focus of the book is a particular region of the Byzantine Empire, Cappadocia, within Anatolia, in the centre of what is now Turkey. Its history as a part of this confederation of territories ...