The city of Constantinople became rich and powerful because of its strategic ... and great wealth. In what ways was the Byzantine Empire able ine Empire to survive into the middle ages? When upheaval ...

A number of Byzantine coins discovered in China and Japan indicate that there was a trade link between the Byzantine Empire ...

The art and architecture of the Chora as we know them today belong in the context of Byzantine revival after the vicissitudes of the thirteenth century, the period of the ‘Latin Empire’, when ...

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 ...

Mark Roosien argues that ritual and theological responses to earthquakes shaped Byzantine conceptions of God and the environment and transformed Constantinople's self-understanding as the capital of ...

Rome remained the capital of the Western Roman Empire, while Constantinople - modern-day Istanbul - was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire. Rome - and the ...