Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine borderlands.

Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. viii, 1152. Illus., maps, appends, gloss., notes, biblio., index. $45.00. ISBN: 0197549322 The Empire that ...

Barbarian invasions in Greece during the Byzantine era were common with mostly Albanian tribes settling in the fertile plains ...

The Byzantium Empire was the longest lasting empire in the western world. It was inaugurated in 330 A.D. when Roman Emperor Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Empire from Rome to Byzantium ...

Cambridge, MA.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. xi, 512. Maps, notes, biblio., index. $35.00. ISBN: 0674035194 In his surprisingly controversial 1976 book The Grand Strategy of ...

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’s long run — 1,100 years — may seem remote from the 21st century, but a reading of its history offers at least three timeless lessons. Understanding some of the fatal weaknesses ...

The approaching Donald Trump presidency has taken quite a battering from historians. Comparisons have abounded with the 20th century’s greatest villains, including Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, ...

When students of grand strategy search the past for lessons, rarely do they look to the Byzantine Empire. Luttwak, who wrote a well-regarded history of the grand strategy of ancient Rome, thinks this ...