The Byzantine empire is conventionally said to begin in 330 BCE, the year that the Roman empire's eastern capital was transferred to Constantinople. The Byzantines called themselves Romaioi, citizens of Rome, and regarded their ruler as absolute...

. Eloquent witnesses to the renaissance of the 12th century and its desire to explore and integrate the riches of the Orient, along with the treasures of its classical past and the matière de Bretagne, the Greco-Byzantine romances explore a...

The Byzantine Empire or Byzantium is the historiographical term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire of the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople. It is also known as the Eastern Roman...

The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire. By James Allan Evans. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2005. Pp. xxii, 178. $45.00.) The author's purpose in writing this book and compiling key documents was to provide to the reader a clear, concise introduction to the...

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A court Tuesday backed Turkey's long-held position that the Istanbul-based Orthodox Patriarch is only the head of the city's tiny Greek Orthodox community and not the spiritual leader of the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians.The decision has no influence on the status of Ecumenical Patriarch...

Provides a detailed outline of the fall of the Byzantine Empire. Details how the emperor Justinian exhausted the resources of the Byzantium, ruined Italy's economy, and killed a major portion of their population.

The basic aspects of human existence and the great questions associated with it evolve, but remain essentially the same, over time and place. An example of this is shown through the great civilizations of Byzantium and Islam.

A paper on the Byzantine empire as if Muslims had taken control of Russia.