A conversation with Byzantine luminary Averil Cameron.
Averil Cameron is one of the leading English-speaking scholars of late antiquity and Byzantium. She has made Byzantium, in particular,Continue Reading
Tag: Great Empires
My Five Favourite Byzantine Emperors
Imagine yourself sitting in a lecture hall with a small body of students studying Roman history and as a wholeContinue Reading
Robin Pierson’s Grand Strategy: The history of Byzantium podcast.
About three years ago, when Mike Duncan stopped producing his ‘History of Rome’ podcast, thousands of podcast listeners mourned inContinue Reading
Over a thousand years of glory, but where does it actually begin?
I often wonder how do we pinpoint the beginning of the Byzantine Empire? There are so many identifiable dates orContinue Reading
Nebuchadnezzar’s Etemenanki ziggurat (Tower of Babel).
Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC) was a king of the short lived Neo Babylonian Empire in Mesopotamia (the region that roughlyContinue Reading
A short history of Byzantium: No.1 Rediscovering an old Empire.
There are individuals and groups of communities that argue that there is no such thing as the Byzantine Empire. ToContinue Reading
Christmas Day, Rome, 800 AD
In the great basilica of St. Peter’s, Rome, Pope Leo III celebrated mass. It was meant to be like anyContinue Reading
Rearview Mirror 