A discussion of the Byzantium Empire, the longest lasting empire in the western world which began in 330 A.D. and collapsed 1,123 years later in 1453. May 26, 2023 at 10:00 AM 7 minute read Commentary ...

Anglo-Saxons joined the Byzantine Varangian Guard after the 1066 Norman Conquest, shaping the Byzantine Empire.

In 1204, crusaders from Western Europe stormed Constantinople, looting one of the richest cities of the medieval world. This documentary explores whether the Fourth Crusade was truly the decisive ...

Anti-Blackness and transphobia are older than we thought In the Byzantine Empire, ideas of race and gender were deeply intertwined.

In Greek Orthodox Christianity, which was the official religion of the Byzantine Empire that lasted from 312 to 1453 A.D., some factions were against sacred images and some in favor of them.

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 ...

But it is time to lay his mistaken notions of the Byzantine Empire, decadent and dying, to rest. Zachary Karabell writes from Harvard's Center for International Affairs.