Foreign warriors recruited by the Byzantine Empire were initially given a suit of armor and then money to buy more armor, weapons and equipment. Elaborately decorated horse equipment, depictions ...

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

The Emperor in the Byzantine World is coherent and mostly quite readable, while still complying with the elaborate, meticulous, and sometime arcane requirements of academic publication. There were ...