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 ...
Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system that funneled agricultural supplies, and it had a good infrastructure system that funneled these ...
Archaeologists in Turkey have made a surprising discovery that challenges our understanding of early Christian practices in ...
Asceticism is the practice of denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal, often ...
The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories ...
The social position of Byzantine women is not easy to assess considering the vast reach of the empire and the many cultures it encompassed.
Anicia Juliana was a Byzantine woman who managed to conquer the fields of architecture, using her massive wealth and noble lineage.
The struggle of the enslaved Greeks against their ruthless rulers, the Ottoman Turks, officially started on the 25th of March 1821 ...