Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. viii, 1152. Illus., maps, appends, gloss., notes, biblio., index. $45.00. ISBN: 0197549322 The Empire that ...
Cambridge, MA.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. xi, 512. Maps, notes, biblio., index. $35.00. ISBN: 0674035194 In his surprisingly controversial 1976 book The Grand Strategy of ...
The Byzantine Greeks are a nation that is very often misunderstood for a number of historical and political reasons.
The Byzantine Empire’s long run — 1,100 years — may seem remote from the 21st century, but a reading of its history offers at least three timeless lessons. Understanding some of the fatal weaknesses ...
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 ...
The approaching Donald Trump presidency has taken quite a battering from historians. Comparisons have abounded with the 20th century’s greatest villains, including Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, ...