During the 15th and 16th centuries, a wave of Greek Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy where they contributed tremendously ...
Michael III, the "Alcoholic" Byzantine Emperor, ruled surprisingly well despite his controversial behavior and personal ...
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 ...
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 ...
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They Thought They Had Discovered the Remains of a Byzantine Ascetic Monk, but What They Found Left Them SpeechlessArchaeologists believed they had unearthed the remains of a Byzantine monk buried beneath an ancient monastery in Jerusalem. But years later, new scientific evidence has turned that theory upside ...
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The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire’s Macedonian RenaissanceThe Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories in Egypt, North Africa, and the Levant lost to the expanding Islamic ...
Mystras, the 'wonder of the Morea', was built as an amphitheatre around the fortress erected in 1249 by the prince of Achaia, William of Villehardouin. Reconquered by the Byzantines, then occupied by ...
A new archaeometric study has identified the origins of marble objects from the early Byzantine villages of Porphyreon and Chhim in present-day Lebanon. Researchers conducted analyses on 66 ...
Peter lived at a very busy time in history. The Great Western Schism (1378-1417) was settled at the Council of Constance ...
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