The Avars rose as a dominant ethnic group in Europe, where their conflicts with the Byzantine Empire reshaped the landscape ...
The Byzantine emperor Maurice ruled in the sixth and early seventh century. He conducted various military campaigns against Persians, Slavs, Avars, and Lombards during a reign that tapped out the ...
The incomparable and irrepressible Edward N. Luttwak has a short article in the November/December issue of Foreign Policy called “Take Me Back to Constantinople: How Byzantium, not Rome, can help ...
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 ...
The Byzantine Empire made remarkable contributions to medicine and science, even thouth they are not widely known.