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

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

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

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The Byzantine Review ist eine open-access Zeitschrift im Peer-Review-Verfahren, welche Besprechungen von Neuerscheinungen und kurze Beiträge aus allen Bereichen der byzantinischen Studien ...

Thanks to the Senate that enabled him, Augustus—and every Roman emperor who followed—was a brutal dictator. Some might argue that the empire that rose from the ashes of the republic brought ...

The Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Dynasty may have stood at opposite ends of the Eurasian continent, but they did experience one thing in common — high levels of income inequality. A team of ...

“Ravenna attracted the best artists and architects from around the empire,” noted Claudia Frassineti ... many of its majestic Roman-era structures have simply vanished and been replaced ...

A research team studied unusual rocks in Iceland to better understand the Late Antique Little Ice Age. The team believes that rapid climate cooling contributed to a mass migration of people within ...