Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

Women played diverse and influential roles in the Byzantine Empire that extended far beyond the domestic affairs of each family.

This volume is about a unique, understudied eleventh-century account and interpretation of Byzantine imperial decline. Focusing on the History, the major work of the judge and courtier Michael ...