The fall of the Byzantine Empire is the fall of a nation, but not the fall of the Byzantine inheritance. This is exactly what it we would like to discuss, thanks to Archimandrite Tikhon’s wonderful ...

The Byzantine Empire during the late 6th to late 7th centuries was in decline. Following the reconquest of the Western provinces of Italy and North Africa under Justinian the Great, the empire was ...

Intriguingly, Attaleiates’ study of Byzantine decline is sprinkled with images of Republican ... By demonstrating his understanding of that past and its relationship with the empire’s troubled present ...

Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.

As the Eastern Roman Empire emerged after the fall of the West, Byzantine coins were mainly comprised of two types of gold solidus coins and a range of bronze coins with clear values. At the time of ...

What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

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 ...

9 - 16) are a narrative history of the Eastern Roman (“Byzantine”) empire that non-specialist readers may find tedious, but the last two chapters, “A Dangerous Idea,” and “Conclusion: Roman Decline ...