In 1081, while the Byzantine Empire was mired in a succession crisis, Robert Guiscard, Norman Duke of Apulia-Calabria, sought to take advantage and launched his conquest. To maintain appearances, he ...

The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate (BCP), a conservative Catholic group describes themselves as a community of monks, priests and bishops living in monasteries and exiled in the Czech Republic.

He’s a U.S. licensed customs broker, which means he handles the paperwork to process imports and calculate duties and fees for products brought into the country. It’s a staggeringly tedious ...

The Catechism lists seven rites. These rites so listed: Latin, Byzantine, Alexandrian, Syriac, Armenian, Maronite, and Chaldean,2 are actually families of liturgical expression. These rites are ...

Several Byzantine emperors made the extraordinary journey from the imperial palace to a life of prayer as monks. Credit: Daderot, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor, ...

The Hagia Sophia is the most iconic symbol of Byzantine architecture. Credit Benh LIEU SONG / CC BY-SA 2.0 / via Wikimedia Commons Despite relative obscurity in Western historiography, Byzantine ...

Byzantine Greek is the dominant form of Greek written during the Byzantine Empire (AD 330–1453). The spoken language changed significantly in this period and came close to Modern Greek, but most ...

Today its site is marked out by municipal flower beds; Kaiser Wilhelm II added a polychrome fountain. Here the Byzantine Emperors were welcomed by the rhythmic acclamations of the factions that ...

This course examines the art and architecture of the Byzantine empire from its sources in Late Antique Rome to its fall in 1453 as well as its influence in the Orthodox Christian art of Russia, Greece ...

Under Byzantine rule, the monophysite strand of Christianity was also subject to persecution, as the imperial authorities struggled to impose orthodoxy from Constantinople. The division between ...