A new study suggests the Byzantine Empire’s decline wasn’t caused by the Justinian Plague, but may have even experienced a ...
The defeat at the Battle of Manzikert was a pivotal moment for the Byzantine Empire as it allowed for the Turkification of ...
Taxes were based on the size of the land, its quality ... it proved to be much harder to crunch them into numerical value. In the Byzantine Empire of the medieval period, it was still olive oil, wine, ...
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 ...