In the eighth century, Byzantine Emperor Leo III (r. 717-41) ordered the destruction of all ... Arriving in Italy, Patriarch Joseph was told that he was expected to kiss the shoe of Pope Eugenius VI ...

Coin featuring Roman Empress Irene of Athens (left) and her son Constantine VI ... Roman/Byzantine history. From a historical point of view, her impact on religious practices within the empire was ...

If we stick to the letter and claim that strategy only existed once the word “strategy” was used, we must exclude all of Ancient History and all of Western European history before the late 18 th ...

Who was Byzas, the legendary Greek founder of the city of Byzantium? This article examines where he was from, what he did, ...

Games for Change said Leo Olebe will be the new chair of the board of directors for the nonprofit dedicated to social impact games and media. Olebe will still be vice president of global ...

This myth is sometimes expanded to include Emperor Constantine as some driving political force behind the formation of the canon. This, in actuality, is almost certainly a fable. Dive into the ...

Historians record that the unified Roman Empire was ruled by 69 emperors between the first emperor Augustus (who reigned from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14) and Theodosius (ruled from A.D. 379 to 395), but ...

In the 300s, the emperor Constantine I converted to Christianity, and a new Byzantine capital was founded in his name: Constantinople, which heralded the beginning of Byzantium’s golden age.

Gang of Four confirmed that Ted Leo and Belly and L7’s Gail Greenwood will join original drummer Hugo Burnham and singer Jon King on the English post-punk outfit’s upcoming farewell tour.

Photos / supplied The Mongol Chinese emperor Kublai Khan was immortalised by English poet Samuel Coleridge’s opium-fuelled descriptions of the “pleasure dome” at Xanadu, the imperial summer ...

OCR gathered records from complainants and Harvard as well as publicly available information, and determined that the university did not have a sufficient procedure to handle Title VI harassment ...