Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being ...
Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. viii, 1152. Illus., maps, appends, gloss., notes, biblio., index. $45.00. ISBN: 0197549322 The Empire that ...
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 ...
In November, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened Africa & Byzantium, its first Byzantine-focused exhibition in nearly 20 years. According to the museum’s press release, the show promises ...
Alchemy in Byzantine times was a long intellectual tradition blending Ancient Greek science, Egyptian symbolism, and ...
About 200 years after the fall of the Roman Empire, western Europe started making thousands of silver coins, signaling a transformation in the early medieval economy. A new chemical analysis of ...
London & New York: Routledge, 1970 / reprint 2026. Pp. 178. Maps, personae, bibliographic notes, index. $75.00. ISBN: 1041006349 A Classic of Byzantine History ...