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 ...
A helmet found among the artifacts from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo in England may serve as evidence that early Anglo-Saxon warriors fought as mercenaries for the Byzantine Empire in the 6th ...
The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories in Egypt, North Africa, and the Levant lost to the expanding Islamic ...