During the past century, the tiny, inbred academic field of Byzantine Studies was dominated by professors of British, French, or Slavic heritage. More recently, a generation of young scholars with ...

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 ...

At the height of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople was the jewel of the Christian world, a city of breathtaking palaces, sprawling forums, and magnificent churches like Hagia Sophia. Its walls had ...

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

This publication includes all essays presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the following programs: Sunday at the Met, March 18, 2012; Perspectives on Byzantium and Islam: A Symposium, March ...

NEW YORK — On the feast of the Transfiguration in 1994, then-seminarian Elias Rafaj made the journey to visit the monastic village of Ormylia in Greece, home to the largest women’s monastery in the ...

The US researchers have discovered the first Mediterranean mass grave of the world’s first proven pandemic, the plague of Justinian , that killed millions of people in the Byzantine ...