Byzantine Empire-or Republic?
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 Anthony Kaldellis, professor of classics at Ohio State University.
Jihad and Crusade: Byzantine Positions Towards the Notions of “Holy War”
Jihad and Crusade Byzantine Positions towards the notions of “Holy War” The current study aims to re-approach the issue of religious warfare in Byzantium by exploring Byzantine attitudes towards the conception of crusade in the period 1096-1204. The study aims to analyse Byzantine positions towards the idea of divinely ordained and spiritually meritorious warfare, based on a comparison […]
A HISTORICAL TOUR OF BYZANTIUM
