The Byzantine Empire, often overshadowed by its predecessor, the Roman Empire, and its successor, the Ottoman Empire, was a remarkable civilization that spanned over a millennium. Its contributions to ...

The Byzantine Review ist eine open-access Zeitschrift im Peer-Review-Verfahren, welche Besprechungen von Neuerscheinungen und kurze Beiträge aus allen Bereichen der byzantinischen Studien ...

Shimmering mosaics. Liturgical vestments. Classical sculpture. Elaborate jewelry. Comprising 63 works, “Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium From Greek Collections” is a modestly sized exhibition at the ...

Claire Vernon, From Byzantine to Norman Italy: Mediterranean Art and Architecture in Medieval Bari (New Directions in Byzantine Studies). London: I. B. Taurus 2023. xii + 269 pp. 137 ill., 4 maps. – ...

When you think of Byzantine emperors, you don’t necessarily think of flying thrones, machines and automations, do you?

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 ...

Every so often, a visitor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City questions the accuracy of an exhibit, but Helen Evans, one of the museum's curators, says not all of them are right.

The Byzantine Empire receives a wide-ranging but unfocused treatment in this volume of essays by U.S. and U.K. academic historians. Several chapters provide a comprehensive if somewhat rushed ...